Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
The common paradigm of searching and retrieving information on the Web is based on keyword-based search using one or more search engines, and then browsing through the large numbe...
A key challenge for agent-oriented software engineering is to develop and implement open systems composed of interacting autonomous agents. On the one hand, there is a need for pe...
Wilfried Brauer, Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatso...
With a changing structure of networks and application systems due to the requirements of decentralised enterprises and open service markets, distributed systems with rapidly incre...
Conversations involving three or more agents often occur in multi-agent systems, for example in brokering and auction protocols typically used in e-commerce. For developing agents ...