With the emergence of fast and standardized communication infrastructures over which separately designed agents of different organizations can interact in real-time, there is an i...
The evolution and commercialization of Web Information Systems (WIS) since 1991 has gradually shifted the focus from basic design issues to feedback analysis, visualization techni...
Community is a common phenomenon in natural ecosystems, human societies as well as artificial multi-agent systems such as those in web and Internet based applications. In many sel...
Delayed arrivals, missing tag codes, flight changes, break-downs, etc. are some of the factors, which make the environment of airport baggage handling systems (BHS) extremely dyn...
The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically focused o...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carl Kesselma...