To ful ll the needs of its deep space exploration program, NASAis actively supporting research and development in autonomy software. However, the reliable and cost-e ective develop...
Withthe proliferationof software agents and smart hardware devices there is a growing realization that large-scale problems can be addressed by integration of such standalone syst...
The global scenario put together by communication networks determines new opportunities towards the realization of Internetbased distributed services in many complex and composite...
Software agents that play a role in E-commerce and E-government applications involving the Internet often contain information about the identity of their human user such as credit ...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Anja Oskamp, Corien Prins, ...
Multi-agent systems are prone to failures typical of any distributed system. Agents and resources may become unavailable due to machine crashes, communication breakdowns, process ...