Abstract-- In this article we present a visual development environment for writing DyLOG programs, explaining the motivations to this work and the main design choices. We will also...
Abstract-- In this seminal paper, we sketch a general conceptual framework for self-organising systems (SOSs) that encompasses both stigmergy and MAS coordination, and potentially ...
Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Cr...
The management of one-to-one business interaction is challenged by the latency in the acquisition of information about the individual customer's preferences. Although sharing ...
Barbara Negro, Angelo Difino, Fabio Bellifemine, G...
Abstract-- Great emphasis has been recently given to agentoriented methodologies for the construction of complex software systems. In this paper two approaches for the construction...
This paper is concerned with the development of a MultiAgent System (MAS) supporting ubiquitous and personalized interaction with Active Environments. In particular, we propose a ...
Giovanni Cozzolongo, Berardina De Carolis, Sebasti...
In this paper, we identify and analyze a set of issues that are more and more influencing the characteristics of today's complex software systems, and that distinguish them f...
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...
The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm seems to be a promising solution for the design and development of distributed value-added services. However, mobility has added complexity to the d...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Gianluca Tonti...
Abstract--In the network-centric computing era, applications often involve sets of autonomous, unpredictable, and possibly mobile entities interacting within open, dynamic, and pos...