The rapid growth in the Internet users and diverse services have made the researches and
practitioners to think of intelligent tools that can assist the users and applications in …

Modern decision support systems (DSS) not only store large amounts of decision-relevant
data, but also aim at assisting decision-makers to explore the meaning of that data, and to …

Improving the decision-making efficiency in defense planning based on the capabilities of
military forces and means for performing purposeful tasks requires new methodological …

The sustainability of transport systems largely depends on the safety guaranteed by the
infrastructures. The first step for transportation agencies to improve transportation …

This paper discusses how agent technology can be applied to the design of advanced
Information Systems for Decision Support. In particular, it describes the different steps and …

A multi-agent system (MAS) is a computational system in which two or more intelligent
agents work together to perform a set of tasks. MAS's have had a significant impact in a wide …

The high complexity of existing networks and services has led to the need to increase the
autonomy of management solutions. This article presents a generic agent-based framework …

In this paper, we describe an integrated design and management approach to creating a
sustainable IT ecosystem: a physical infrastructure where information technology has been …

The self‐management vision, which has raised much interest in recent years, is only an
operational aim that does not provide any solution in its definition on how to attain this …

A data-driven design method is proposed for multi-agent systems that communicate with
each other via a network. In such a networked control system, even if the controlled process …