Abstract. Agent-oriented system development aims to simplify the conn of complex systems by introducing a natural abstraction layer on top of the object-oriented paradigm composed ...
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Daniel Moldt, Win...
The Esprit project PRODNET II1 (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a support in...
The main goals of a switch scheme are high utilization, low queuing delay and fairness. To achieve high utilization the switch scheme can maintain non-zero (small) queues in steady...
Bobby Vandalore, Raj Jain, Rohit Goyal, Sonia Fahm...
Although IP-multicast has been proposed and investigated for years, there are major problems inherent in the IP-multicasting technique, e.g., difficulty to scale up the system, di...
It is generally accepted that the environment is an essential compound of multiagent systems (MASs). Yet the environment is typically assigned limited responsibilities, or even neg...
Danny Weyns, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Fabien Michel, T...