This paper presents a methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design. The methodology is general, in that it is applicable to a wide range of multi-agent systems, and comprehe...
Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings, David Ki...
Abstract. Understanding and supporting the interaction between software requirements and architectures remains one of the challenging problems in software engineering research. To ...
: A Virtual Enterprise (VE) can be described as an organisational form that emerges when individual entities form a team of partners to achieve a specific goal. The ability to asse...
A norm-governed agent takes social norms into account in its practical reasoning. Such norms characterise its role within a specific organisational context. By adopting a role, th...
One of the hardest tasks in any healthcare application is the management of knowledge. Organisational information as well as medical concepts should be represented in an appropriat...