Flooding produces debris and waste including liquids, dead animal bodies and hazardous
materials such as hospital waste. Debris causes serious threats to people's health and can …

Recent years have shown a large increase in applications and research of problems that
include moving a fleet of physical robots. One particular application that is currently a multi …

Autonomic communications seek to improve the ability of network and services to cope with
unpredicted change, including changes in topology, load, task, the physical and logical …

The current practice in multiagent systems typically associates the environment with
resources that are external to agents and their communication infrastructure. Advanced uses …

This article introduces the notion of environment programming in software multi-agent
systems (MAS) and describes a concrete computational and programming model based on …

It is commonly agreed that a self-adaptive software system is one that can modify itself at run-
time due to changes in the system, its requirements, or the environment in which it is …

Methodological Guidelines for Modeling and Developing MAS-Based Simulations The
intersection of agents, modeling, simulation, and application domains has been the subject …

The reconfiguration of control software is regarded as an important ability to enhance the
effectiveness and efficiency in future manufacturing systems. Agent technology is …

Organic Computing (OC) and other research initiatives like Autonomic Computing or
Proactive Computing have developed the vision of systems possessing life-like properties …

In this paper, we develop the idea of a universal anytime intelligence test. The meaning of
the terms “universal” and “anytime” is manifold here: the test should be able to measure the …