Work on agent development frameworks, toolkits and methodologies have recently reached to such a level that ordinary organizations can develop their own multi-agent platforms easi...
Obligation Policies specify management actions that must be performed when a particular kind of event occurs and certain conditions are satisfied. Large scale distributed systems...
The use of ontologies lies at the very heart of the newly emerging era of Semantic Web. They provide a shared conceptualization of some domain that may be communicated between peop...
Mehul Bhatt, Carlo Wouters, Andrew Flahive, J. Wen...
: In process-centric enterprises, business processes (BPs) are at the center of value-creating activities. Governing enterprise BPs requires the ability to control and guide BP beh...
Building complex software systems necessitates the use of component-based architectures. In theory, of the set of components needed for a design, only some small portion of them ar...