Intelligent agents and healthcare have been intimately linked in the last years. The intrinsic
complexity and diversity of care can be tackled with the flexibility, dynamics and reliability of …

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 consensus control problem of multi-agent systems (MASs) has received an increasing
research interest with ever-developing consensus theory. Before it can be widely applied to …

Grid computing systems provide a vast amount of computing resources from multiple
administrative domains to reach a main objective. One of the most important challenges in …

A mobile agent is a software application that moves naturally among hosts in a uniform and
non-uniform environment; it starts with one host and then moves onto the next in order to …

Self-protecting software systems are a class of autonomic systems capable of detecting and
mitigating security threats at runtime. They are growing in importance, as the stovepipe static …

Mobile agents are smart programs that migrate from one platform to another to perform the
user task. Mobile agents offer flexibility and performance enhancements to systems and …

Cloud computing, like any distributed computing system, is continually exposed to many
threats and attacks of various origins. Thus, cloud security is now a very important concern …

Multi-agent systems are becoming increasingly popular due to their successful
implementation in several sectors. However, there are a variety of threats that might …

Due to the dependence of consensus theory on multi‐agent systems (MAS) and the need to
openly exchange status information with neighbors on each agent, private status and …