The adoption of agent technologies and multi-agent systems constitutes an emerging area
in bioinformatics. In this article, we report on the activity of the Working Group on Agents in …

Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in
distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation …

The medical milieu is an open environment characterized by a variety of distributed,
heterogeneous and autonomous information resources. Coordination, cooperation and …

Tool integration is a very difficult challenge. Problems may arise at different abstraction
levels and from several sources such as heterogeneity of manipulated data, incompatible …

There are many infectious diseases still plaguing different nations of the world. Some of
these infectious diseases such as HIV, malaria, Ebola, and Lassa fever tend to affect less …

This paper presents a synthesis approach for reactive systems that aims at minimizing the
overhead introduced by the operating system and the interaction among the concurrent …

The scope of the Technical Forum Group (TFG) on Agents in Bioinformatics (BIOAGENTS)
was to inspire collaboration between the agent and bioinformatics communities with the aim …

We present a novel approach to enable decision-making in a highly distributed multiagent
environment where individual agents need to act in an autonomous fashion. Our …

Multi-Agent System (MAS), and more specifically, ontology-based MAS, are increasingly
being proposed and used within the medical domain. In this paper we represent an ontology …

This book presents innovative approaches from database researchers supporting the
challenging process of knowledge discovery in biomedicine. Ranging from how to effectively …