The open source movement has grown steadily and matured in recent years, and this
growth has been mirrored by a rise in open source related research. The objective of this …

CONTEXT: Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop,
acquire, use, and commercialize software. OBJECTIVE: This paper seeks to identify how …

Advances in cloud computing reshape the manufacturing industry into dynamically scalable,
on-demand service oriented, and highly distributed cost-efficient business model. However it …

Smart homes have been viewed with increasing interest by both home owners and the
research community in the past few years. One reason for this development is that the use of …

The evolution towards smart grids (SGs) is mainly characterized by the integration of
renewable energy sources (RESs) throughout the grid. The intermittent nature of these …

Classification decision tree algorithms are used extensively for data mining in many
domains such as retail target marketing, fraud detection, etc. Highly parallel algorithms for …

Robotics is an area of research in which the paradigm of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) can
prove to be highly useful. Multi-Agent Systems come in the form of cooperative robots in a …

The aim of this paper is to give a survey on the development and applications of
evolutionary multi-agent systems (EMAS). The paper starts with a general introduction …

In this paper we aim to implement a highly distributed information infrastructure—MADIP by
using Intelligent Agent paradigm, which is able to notify the responsible care-provider of …

Change is an essential characteristic of software development, as software systems must
respond to evolving requirements, platforms, and other environmental pressures. In this …