Abstract. The practitioners of bioinformatics require increasing sophistication from their software tools to take into account the particular characteristics that make their domain...
Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. This paper proposes a multi-agent conceptual model of WS and an agent-oriented modelling and...
Several concerns in the development of multi-agent systems (MASs) cannot be represented in a modular fashion. In general, they inherently affect several system modules and cannot b...
Abstract. This paper reports on our work on three complementary directions, aimed at developing: (i) a theoretical framework named UFO (Unified Foundational Ontology) for (re) desi...
Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Jo&at...
Numerous methodologies for developing agent-based systems have been proposed in the literature. However, their application is still limited due to their lack of maturity. Evaluati...