The virtual community concept, when supported by adequate ICT and organizational infrastructures, represents a very promising approach for a new philosophy in elderly care and acti...
Octavio Castolo, Filipa Ferrada, Luis M. Camarinha...
—Emergent behavior is an essential feature in multi-agent systems and plays a significant role in the applications of agent technology. Because of the huge gap between individual...
This research explores agent technology to support the information needs of patients and community pharmacists toward a beneficial outcome for the patient. As patients make more u...
Conversation policies codify the allowable exchanges of speech acts among agents as they execute specific types of tasks. Both the set of agents in a community, and the nature of...
In this paper, we propose a novel community-based approach for web service selection where super-agents with more capabilities serve as community managers. They maintain communitie...