A MAS architecture consisting of service centers is proposed. Within each service center, a mediator coordinates service delivery by allocating individual tasks to corresponding t...
— this paper discusses a conceptual framework for the requirements engineering process for e-school applications offering a service to the information society. The e-school appli...
State-of-the-art middleware and component technologies lack support for Quality of Service (QoS) management. Application developers, therefore, integrate QoS mechanisms into the a...
Abstract. Current research in peer to peer systems is lacking appropriate environments for simulation and experimentation of large scale overlay services. This has led to a plethor...
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...