It is generally accepted that the environment is an essential compound of multiagent
systems (MASs). Yet the environment is typically assigned limited responsibilities, or even …

Pilot-Job systems play an important role in supporting distributed scientific computing. They
are used to execute millions of jobs on several cyberinfrastructures worldwide, consuming …

Abstract The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to
services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke …

The notion of society should play a central role in agent-oriented software engineering as a
first-class abstraction around which complex systems can be designed and built as multi …

The vast amount of heterogeneous information sources available on the Internet demands
advanced solutions for acquiring, mediating, and maintaining relevant information for the …

" I think this book will be the first standard introductory book on mobile agents."-José M.
Vidal, University of South Carolina Mobile agents are software nomads that act as your …

Abstract A Multi-Agent System (hereafter MAS) is an organization of coordinated
autonomous agents that interact in order to achieve common goals. Considering real world …

While many works have been devoted to service matchmaking and modeling nonfunctional
properties, the problem of matching service requests to offers in an optimal way has not yet …

At a time when society is in constant transition to keep up with technological advancement,
we are seeing traditional paradigms being increasingly challenged. The fundamentals of …

Complex computer-integrated systems offer enormous benefits across a wide array of
applications, including automated production, transportation, concurrent software, and …