An often claimed benefit of mobile agent technology is the reduction of communication cost. Especially the area of information filtering has been proposed for the application of...
A fundamental difficulty faced by groups of agents that work together is how to efficiently coordinate their efforts. This coordination problem is both ubiquitous and challenging,...
Abstract— Many applications require teams of robots to cooperatively execute complex tasks. Among these domains are those where successful coordination solutions must respect con...
Edward Gil Jones, M. Bernardine Dias, Anthony Sten...
While software is becoming decomposed in more and more finegrained entities, the interactions amongst those become of major importance. While methodologies for building such compon...
As web service technology matures there is growing interest in exploiting workflow techniques to coordinate web services. Bioinformaticians are a user community who combine web re...
Thomas M. Oinn, Matthew Addis, Justin Ferris, Darr...