Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in modern distributed systems. Most recently, industry has witnessed the emergence of component-based middleware pla...
Michael Clarke, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Ni...
: Multiagent Systems (MAS) are open, heterogeneous and distributed software systems of autonomous agents. The management of exception differs in MAS from what is known in usual eng...
This paper describes the development of a distributed multi-agent workflow enacting mechanism starting from a BPEL4WS[BPE03] specification. Our work demonstrates that a multi-agent...
While commodity computing and graphics hardware has increased in capacity and dropped in cost, it is still quite difficult to make effective use of such systems for general-purpos...
E. Wes Bethel, Greg Humphreys, Brian E. Paul, J. D...
Automated support of design teams, consisting of both human and automated systems, requires an understanding of the role of trust in distributed design processes. By explicitating ...
Niek J. E. Wijngaards, Hidde M. Boonstra, Frances ...