Business process management has been the driving force of optimization and operational
efficiency for companies until now, but the digitalization era we have been experiencing …

A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of
people, devices, and software agents. Today, when computing is pervasive and deployed …

In some areas of software engineering research, there are several metamodels claiming to
capture the main issues. Though it is profitable to have variety at the beginning of a research …

In this paper we introduce and motivate a conceptualization framework for agent-based
social simulation, MAIA: Modelling Agent systems based on Institutional Analysis. The MAIA …

Traditional disk arrays have a centralized architecture, with a single controller through which
all requests flow. Such a controller is a single point of failure, and its performance limits the …

This paper describes, from motivations and main objectives to actual implementation, a
novel agent-oriented programming language called JADEL. JADEL is designed to support …

We present a technique for constructing shape representation from images using free-form
deformable surfaces. We model an object as a closed surface that is deformed subject to …

Various agent-oriented methodologies and metamodels exist to design and develop
multiagent systems (MAS) in an abstract manner. Frequently, these frameworks specialise …

Ontologies offer significant benefits to multi-agent systems: interoperability, reusability,
support for multi-agent system (MAS) development activities (such as system analysis and …