This paper shows how to verify a Multi-Agent System specification using human organization metaphors. This proposal applies Activity Theory, which has its roots in Sociology, to st...
Abstract. Understanding and supporting the interaction between software requirements and architectures remains one of the challenging problems in software engineering research. To ...
: The task of the creatures in the "creatures' exploration problem" is to visit all empty cells in an environment with a minimum number of steps. We have analyzed th...
: This paper analyses aspects about the recommendation process in distributed information systems. It extracts similarities and differences between recommendations in estores and t...
In many different applications on the Web, distributed agents would like to discover and access high quality information sources. This is a challenging problem since an agent does...