Many organizations have large quantities of spatial data collected in various application areas, including remote sensing, geographical information systems (GIS), astronomy, compu...
A multi-agent system architecture for coordination of just-in-time production and distribution is presented. The problem to solve is two-fold: first the right amount of resources ...
The cost for testing integrated circuits represents a growing percentage of the total cost for their production. The former strictly depends on the length of the test session, and...
Fulvio Corno, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Giovanni Squill...
This paper focuses on coordination middleware for distributed applications based on active documents and XML technologies. It introduces the main concepts underlying active docume...
Paolo Ciancarini, Robert Tolksdorf, Franco Zambone...
Interactive storytelling can either be based on explicit plot representations or on the autonomous behaviour of artificial characters. In such a character-based approach, the dyna...
In most of today's agent systems migration of agents requires homogeneity in the programming language and/or agent platform in which an agent has been designed. In this paper...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Benno J. Overeinder, Maarte...
We describe a resource discovery and communication system designed for security and privacy. All objects in the system, e.g., appliances, wearable gadgets, software agents, and us...
Matt Burnside, Dwaine E. Clarke, Todd Mills, Andre...