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CORR
2006
Springer
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Complexity and Philosophy
The science of complexity is based on a new way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy underlying Newtonian science, which is based on reductionism, determinis...
Francis Heylighen, Paul Cilliers, Carlos Gershenso...
ICCS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Computational Complexity and Distributed Execution in Water Quality Management
Abstract. Modeling is considered an inherent part of design, operation and optimization of Water Quality Systems. Models are used for running so-called Virtual Experiments, such as...
Maria Chtepen, Filip H. A. Claeys, Bart Dhoedt, Pe...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling complex multi-issue negotiations using utility graphs
This paper presents an agent strategy for complex bilateral negotiations over many issues with inter-dependent valuations. We use ideas inspired by graph theory and probabilistic ...
Valentin Robu, D. J. A. Somefun, Johannes A. La Po...
AOIS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Towards a More Expressive and Refinable Multiagent System Engineering Methodology
In this paper, we improve and extend the MaSE methodology to bridge the gaps in this methodology. First, we propose an improvement process and, based on this process, we report th...
Shiva Vafadar, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh Barfouroush, Mo...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Structure in threes: modelling organization-oriented software architectures built upon multi-agent systems
Software systems are subject to increasing complexity and in need of efficient structuring. Multi-agent system research has come up with approaches for an organization-oriented co...
Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus, Daniel Moldt