This report will present a collection of tools that supports the precise definition, careful analysis, and execution of processes that coordinate the actions of humans, automated d...
Leon J. Osterweil, Lori A. Clarke, George S. Avrun...
Abstract. Many autonomous agents operate in domains in which the cooperation of their fellow agents cannot be guaranteed. In such domains negotiation is essential to persuade other...
Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings, Pablo Noriega...
Two recent projects at ORA have used a blackboard framework during system design.1 DANA is a multimedia network monitoring system, while MARRS is a real-time passive radar system....
Web Services are software services that can be advertised by providers and invoked by customers using Web technologies. This concept is currently carried further to address the co...
The design of virtual workplaces that can support virtual work processes has traditionally been either ad-hoc, or has been influenced by the top-down approaches, such as ‘virtua...