Industrial Agents explains how multi-agent systems improve collaborative networks to offer
dynamic service changes, customization, improved quality and reliability, and flexible …

Institutional messages provide a conceptual and empirical link between the predominantly
macro world of institutions and the micro world of organizational communication. The …

In recent years, the future of agent research has often been discussed. Most prominent is the
issue whether agents should be seen as a conceptual framework or as a software …

Organizational notions such as roles, norms (eg, obligations and permissions), and services
are increasingly viewed as natural concepts to manage the complexity of software …

Technology for supporting people in their daily lives such as personal assistant agents and
smart homes carry great potential for making our lives more connected, healthy, efficient and …

Recent technological advances in open systems have imposed new needs on multi-agent
systems. Nowadays, open systems require open autonomous scenarios in which …

We address the question of how an agent can adapt its behavior to comply with newly
adopted norms. This is particularly relevant in the case of open systems where agents may …

Being one of the few mechanical components in a typical computer system, hard drives
consume a significant amount of the overall power used by a computer. Spinning down a …

Virtual Organizations are a suitable mechanism for enabling coordination of heterogeneous
agents in open environments. Taking into account many concepts of the Human …

Open systems are characterized by the presence of a diversity of heterogeneous and
autonomous agents that act according to private goals. Organizations, such as those used in …