SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
Monitoring distributed systems involves the collection, analysis, and display of interactions among managed objects. These functions are carried out by the components of a monitor...
Hasina Abdu, Hanan Lutfi Lutfiyya, Michael A. Baue...
The management of natural resources is an intricate and consequential task. In particular, water management is at the forefront of public policy priorities in many countries becaus...
Hierarchies are powerful tools for decomposing complex control tasks into manageable subtasks. Several hierarchical approaches have been proposed for creating agents that can exec...
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously search for and synthesize user-oriented knowledge (target knowledge) in large local or distributed databases. A knowledge ge...