Coordinating agents in a complex environment is a hard problem, but it can become even harder when certain characteristics of the tasks, like the required number of agents, are un...
: This paper investigates the feasibility of employing the Software Agent technology in the highly dynamic and variable context of healthcare emergency coordination and decision-su...
Francesco De Mola, Giacomo Cabri, Nicola Muratori,...
Norms constitute a powerful coordination mechanism among heterogeneous agents. We propose means to specify and explicitly manage the normative positions of agents (permissions, pro...
: Emerging interaction paradigms, such as service-oriented computing, and new technological challenges, such as exogenous component coordination, suggest new roles and application ...
Paula R. Ribeiro, Marco Antonio Barbosa, Luí...
Using a dominating set as a coordinator in wireless networks has been proposed in many papers as an energy conservation technique. Since the nodes in a dominating set have the ext...