—This paper describes Herald, an agent based toolkit for dispatching and processing items in a distributed environment. Herald is suitable for scenarios where the process could b...
Christian Vecchiola, Alberto Grosso, Andrea Passad...
—In this paper we present a multi-agent search technique to face the NP-hard single machine total weighted tardiness scheduling problem in presence of sequence-dependent setup ti...
Davide Anghinolfi, Antonio Boccalatte, Alberto Gro...
—In this paper we study how roles can be added to patterns modelling relationships in Object Oriented programming, and which new relationship patterns can be introduced using rol...
Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, Leendert W. N. van d...
—This work deals with trust management in open and decentralized agent-based environments. Analysis and solutions are geared towards peer to peer networks, intended not just as a...
—This document briefly describes a framework supporting the definition and implementation of virtual environment inhabited by interacting situated agents defined according to the...
—Reasoning by interrogation is one of the most ancient and experimented ways of reasoning. Originated by the Aristotelian elenchus, it has been used for many purposes, such as th...
Vincenzo Deufemia, Giuseppe Polese, Genoveffa Tort...
Abstract— Museums and exhibitions represent a relevant contribution to the economy all over the world. In Italy, in the year 2006 the 400 national museums, monuments and archaeol...
— The continuous growth of information sources on the web, together with the corresponding volume of dailyupdated contents, makes the problem of finding news and articles a chal...
Andrea Addis, Giuliano Armano, Francesco Mascia, E...
Abstract— Situated agents engaged in open systems continually face with external events requiring adequate services and behavioral responses. In these conditions agents should be...
Abstract—In this work, we present a constrained-based representation for specifying the goals of “course design”, that we call curricula model, and introduce a graphical lang...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Giuseppe Berio,...