In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
Collaboration between peers is an important aspect of the learning process and can considerably augment learning in studying complex domains. To ensure that peer collaboration occ...
— Agent ownership is a difficult task that touches legal domain. Agent ownership implies that a specific person or organization (the owner) is responsible for the agent’s act...
Salvatore Vitabile, Giovanni Pilato, Vincenzo Cont...
— Mobile Agents model is widely accepted as a good solution to simplify the coordination in a complex and distributed environment. Pervasive computing, presents many issues regar...
— The aim of this paper is to focus on the issues connected with the diagrammatic notations and tools, which should support developers when moving from the design phase towards t...
Massimo Cossentino, Agostino Poggi, Giovanni Rimas...
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 ...
— This paper describes a methodology to design a workflow management system where a set of intelligent software agents composes an interactive scenario. The Workflow Management C...
Marco Repetto, Massimo Paolucci 0002, Antonio Bocc...