Improving the efficiency of e-Business usage requires the further development of automation techniques for interorganizational business processes as a major driver. Automation ca...
Developing applications that make effective use of machine-readable knowledge sources as promised by the Semantic Web vision is attracting much of current research interest; this v...
AOSE methodologies and models borrow various abstractions and concepts from the organization and sociology disciplines. Although they all ti-agent system as organized society, the ...
The problem of designing suitable conceptual modeling languages for system engineering is far from being solved. In the past years, some works have proposed the use of foundational...
Research on agent communication languages has typically taken the speech acts paradigm as its starting point. Despite their manifest attractions, speech-act models of communicatio...