The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...
This paper outlines an aspect-oriented approach to support separation and modularization of crosscutting concerns in multi-agent systems. Aspects as abstractions to capture social ...
Carla T. L. L. Silva, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Jo...
This paper describes the initial PhD research work for developing an innovative process for agent coordination in unstructured distributed environments. In this proposal, an agent...
Prototyping is a valuable technique to help software engineers explore the design space while gaining insight on the dynamics of the system. In this paper, we describe a method for...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, David Stuart Robertson...
We present our Component-Based Agent Framework, which enables a software engineer to design a set of agents by using a visual compo nent-based toolkit (Sun’s BDK), and wiring tog...