: This paper analyses aspects about the recommendation process in distributed information systems. It extracts similarities and differences between recommendations in estores and t...
This paper introduces a model for Distributed Employee Timetabling Problems (DisETPs) and proposes a general architecture for solving DisETPs by using a Multi Agent System (MAS) pa...
—This document briefly describes a framework supporting the definition and implementation of virtual environment inhabited by interacting situated agents defined according to the...
As the complexity of computing systems steadily increases, self-managing systems – as Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS) proposed by IBM – are an adequate approach to minimize ...
Observation is becoming a crucial issue in the engineering of today's systems: the common practice for dealing with their complexity is to encapsulate their subcomponents abs...