Abstract— The emergence of future pervasive ICT environments, characterized by the massive proliferation of embedded electronic devices with communication and computing capabilit...
—Grid system software is inherently complex, hard to build and maintain. In this paper, we propose a selfmanaging building block: Grid Unit, which facilitates constructing Grid s...
Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Ming Zou, Hui Wang, Shuan...
Civil infrastructures are vital elements of a nation’s physical well-being and quality of life because modern economies rely on the services these systems provide to move goods,...
A multi-agent system is a useful approach for the complex systems. One of the important concepts of multi-agent systems is cooperativeness, or interactions. However, existing lang...
The concepts of autonomous agent and multi-agent system appropriate levels of abstraction for the design, implementation and simulation of many complex, distributed computational s...
Michael Luck, Peter McBurney, Jorge Gonzalez-Palac...