: A Virtual Enterprise (VE) can be described as an organisational form that emerges when individual entities form a team of partners to achieve a specific goal. The ability to asse...
The WS-BPEL specification focuses on business processes the activities of which are assumed to be interactions with Web services. However, WS-BPEL processes go beyond the orchestr...
This paper describes an agent-based electronic market system whose underlying communication and cooperation protocols establish an artificial environment with advanced features. U...
In this paper, we study the problem of achieving efficient interaction in a distributed scheduling system whose scheduling agents may borrow resources from one another. Specifical...
Daniel E. Neiman, David W. Hildum, Victor R. Lesse...
When the transition probabilities and rewards of a Markov Decision Process are specified exactly, the problem can be solved without any interaction with the environment. When no s...