Self-adaptive software is capable of evaluating and changing its own behavior, whenever
the evaluation shows that the software is not accomplishing what it was intended to do, or …

Nowadays a whole bunch of different agent platforms exists that aim to support the software
engineer in developing multi-agent systems. Nevertheless most of these platforms …

This chapter presents Jadex, a software framework for the creation of goal-oriented agents
following the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model. The Jadex project aims to make the …

Agent technology currently plays an important role in complex software development. The
underlying paradigm offers a large repertoire of original concepts, architectures, interaction …

Agent-oriented system development aims to simplify the construction of complex systems by
introducing a natural abstraction layer on top of the object-oriented paradigm composed of …

As the number of computing devices embedded into engineered systems continues to rise,
there is a widening gap between the needs of the user to control aggregates of devices and …

This article describes ALZ-MAS; an Ambient Intelligence based multi-agent system aimed at
enhancing the assistance and health care for Alzheimer patients. The system makes use of …

Nowadays a multitude of different agent platforms exist that aim to support the software
engineer in developing multi-agent systems. Nevertheless, most of these platforms …

Agents are an important technology that have the potential to take over contemporary
methods for analysing, designing, and implementing complex software. The Belief-Desire …

During the last years there has been a growing need of developing innovative tools that can
help small to medium sized enterprises to predict business failure as well as financial crisis …