We review the applications of artificial life (ALife), the creation of synthetic life on computers
to study, simulate, and understand living systems. The definition and features of ALife are …

The last decades, advances in information technologies and increased competition have
changed the business environment in the food and beverages industry, particularly in the …

Multi-agent systems are a new computational approach for solving real world, dynamic and
open system problems. Problems are conceptualized as a collection of decentralised …

The metaphors of autonomous agents and agent societies have the potential to make a
significant impact on the processes of analysis, design, and development of complex …

If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation
mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when …

Agent integration architectures enable a heterogeneous, distributed set of agents to work
together to address problems of greater complexity than those addressed by the individual …

Automating enterprise workflows could unlock $4 trillion/year in productivity gains. Despite
being of interest to the data management community for decades, the ultimate vision of end …

Process discovery studies ways to use event data generated by business processes and
recorded by IT systems to construct models that describe the processes. Existing discovery …

The promise of agent-based systems is leading towards the development of autonomous,
heterogeneous agents, designed by a variety of research/industrial groups and distributed …

Modern chemical production is customer-driven and the desired delivery time for the
products is often shorter than their campaign length. In addition, the raw materials supplying …