There is great promise in the idea of having agent or web services available on the internet, that can be flexibly composed to achieve more complex services, which can themselves t...
It is possible to define conversation policies, such as communication or dialogue protocols, that are based strictly on what messages and, respectively, what performatives may foll...
Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agentbased modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a...
Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, Helen Celia, Chri...
Abstract. Social assistance constitutes an increasing problem in developed countries, which can be considered from two dimensions: the home and the hospital frameworks. Anyway, mos...
Gabriel Fiol-Roig, Diana Arellano, Francisco J. Pe...
Computational grids are now widespread, but their large-scale behaviour is still poorly understood. We report on some calculations of loading, scaling and utilisation behaviours o...