Designing realistic multi-agent systems is a complex process, which involves specifying not only the functionality of individual agents, but also the authority relationships and l...
Anthony Karageorgos, Simon G. Thompson, Nikolay Me...
This paper proposes the modeling and the performance analysis of a high-level control protocol – COCOP, which enables cooperative groups of clients to control a shared server de...
Current solutions to characterize grid computing usage are limited in three important aspects. First, they do not provide a global, uniform view of the use of infrastructures compr...
Glauco Antonio Ludwig, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, G...
Abstract. We study the problem of checking the competence of communicative agents operating in a global society in order to receive and offer electronic services. Such a society wi...
Description Logics, and in particular the web ontology language OWL has been proposed as an appropriate basis for computing matches between structured objects for the sake of info...