Software agents are a major innovation in how people use information systems, and they have parallels with how Decision Support Systems (DSS) support human decision-making. A DSS ...
In this work, a new type of collaborative learning activity is proposed in order to enable students to explore and understand information in highly mobile situations. We call this ...
Gustavo Zurita, Nelson Baloian, Pedro Antunes, Fel...
In Grid systems, nontrivial qualities of service have to be provided to users by the resource providers. However, resource management in a decentralized infrastructure is a complex...
The aim of this paper is to introduce a modelling concept and structuring principle for rule-based systems the semantics of which is not restricted to a sequential behavior, but ca...
In complex systems, like robot plants, applications are built on top of a set of components, or devices. Each of them has particular individual constraints, and there are also log...