Complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Replacing a software component with a newer version is the basic evolution operation that has to be supported. It i...
This paper presents a generic architecture for an agent capable of designing and creating new agents. The design agent itself is based on an existing generic agent model, and inclu...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...
In this paper, we discuss several facets of optimization in cloud computing, the corresponding challenges and propose an architecture for addressing those challenges. We consider ...
Marin Litoiu, C. Murray Woodside, Johnny Wong, Joa...
This paper discusses the trade-off between calculations and memory accesses in a 3D graphics tile renderer for visualization of data from medical scanners. The performance require...
Thomas Gleerup, Hans Holten-Lund, Jan Madsen, Stee...
Multi-agent systems are now being considered a promising architectural approach for building Internet-based applications. One of the most critical and important aspects of softwar...