Multiagent software systems are known to exhibit a system-level behavior that rarely can be predicted from the description of individual agents but must be observed in simulation o...
New technologies have recently emerged to challenge the very nature of computing: multicore processors, virtualized operating systems and networks, and data-center clouds. One can...
Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. This paper proposes a multi-agent conceptual model of WS and an agent-oriented modelling and...
Representation of negotiations in electronic markets and their support are important issues in today's e-commerce research. Whereas most activities are focused on automation ...
This paper examines the driving and opposing forces that are governing the current paradigm shift from a data-processing information technology environment without software intell...