This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...
Abstract. Autonomous agents are systems situated in dynamic environments. They pursue goals and satisfy their needs by responding to external events from the environment. In these ...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a layered agent architecture for decision support applications in general and for distributed medical care in particular. Thre...
In this paper, we propose a family of operators for merging stratified knowledge bases under integrity constraints. The operators are defined in a model-theoretic way. Our merging...
Current research identifying architectures for a virtual enterprise has moved from information modelling to role modelling. Thus, a high level of autonomy results from the distribu...