Engineering design increasingly uses computer simulation models coupled with optimization algorithms to find the best design that meets the customer constraints within a time con...
Many real-world applications of multiagent systems require independently designed (heterogeneous) and operated (autonomous) agents to interoperate. We consider agents who offer bu...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Amit K. Chopra,...
When describing Web services, one of the obvious aspects that needs representing is Quality of Service” (QoS), the capability of a Web service to meet an acceptable level of ser...
The paper presents the design of a software infrastructure that can support negotiation and competition among buyers and sellers of goods (auctioning) over the Internet. The goals...
We design a schema language that includes channel schemas with capabilities of input, output, and input-output. These schemas may describe documents containing references to operat...