Driven by the rapid progress in quantum hardware, recent years have witnessed a furious
race for quantum technologies in both academia and industry. Universal quantum …

Future wireless networks have a substantial potential in terms of supporting a broad range of
complex compelling applications both in military and civilian fields, where the users are able …

Multi-agent systems (MASs) have received tremendous attention from scholars in different
disciplines, including computer science and civil engineering, as a means to solve complex …

The emergence of the Internet of things and the widespread deployment of diverse
computing systems have led to the formation of heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MAS) …

Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges
posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly …

The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents
interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as …

The concept of an agent has become important in both artificial intelligence (AT) and
mainstream computer science. Our aim in this paper is to point the reader at what we …

We present the Met Office Hadley Centre's sea ice and sea surface temperature (SST) data
set, HadISST1, and the nighttime marine air temperature (NMAT) data set, HadMAT1 …

This survey characterizes an emerging research area, sometimes called coordination
theory, that focuses on the interdisciplinary study of coordination. Research in this area uses …

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text.
Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive …