The requirement for spontaneous interaction in ubiquitous computing creates security issues over and above those present in other areas of computing, deeming traditional approaches...
In this paper a theory of delegation is presented. There are at least three reasons for developing such a theory. First, one of the most relevant notions of "agent" is b...
In this paper we present a novel, ontology-based approach to service discovery, which exploits domain knowledge and semantic service descriptions to guide the service discovery pr...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
Interchange formats have been the backbone of the EDA industry for several years. They are used as a way of helping the development of design flows that integrate foreign tools us...
Alessandro Pinto, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentel...
Use of multi-agent systems (MAS) in health-care domains is increasing. MAS is an appropriate technique for many medical domains due to the characteristics of the problems in this a...