The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Abstract At the start of its present term of office in 1997 the UK government published a planning document promising ubiquitous access to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) held wit...
Incorporating coalition formation algorithms into agent systems shall be advantageous due to the consequent increase in the overall quality of task performance. Coalition formatio...
Drawing on a fieldwork study, this paper considers different design options for the development of a system for facilitating distributed organisation and distributed working withi...
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...