Abstract— This paper focuses on large-scale distributed systems that can be modeled as workflows of activities sharing resources, knowledge, know-how and services. We propose a ...
— The Immune System (IS) constitutes the defence mechanism of higher level organisms to micro organismic threats: it is a real distributed system providing mechanisms of adaptati...
— The design and the implementation of software for mobile computers and for pervasive computing environments entail several issues and lead to new requirements. Applications mus...
Davide Carboni, Andrea Piras, Stefano Sanna, Gavin...
— In the last few years, efforts have been done towards bridging the gap between agent technology and de facto standard technologies, aiming at introducing multi-agent systems in...
Sonia Bergamaschi, Gionata Gelati, Francesco Guerr...
— In this paper we discuss how some features of the new logic programming language DALI for agents and multiagent systems are suitable to programming agents equipped with plannin...