Since the first edition was published two years ago, much has been done on extend ing the
work done on SMART to address new and important areas [3-5, 54, 79, 80, 108 …

Abstract A Multi-Agent System (hereafter MAS) is an organization of coordinated
autonomous agents that interact in order to achieve common goals. Considering real world …

Despite many efforts to understand why and how norms can be incorporated into agents and
multi-agent systems, there are still several gaps that must be filled. This paper focuses on …

Vor dem Hintergrund einer zunehmenden Innovationsdynamik und Differenzierung von
Kundenwünschen im internationalen Wettbewerb gewinnt für Unternehmen die Fähigkeit an …

This paper introduces ubiquitous healthcare, addressing the access of health services by
individual consumers applying to mobile computing devices. This access requires …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual foundation and empirical
basis for exploring issues related to the design framework for modeling coordination in …

This paper introduces a network‐enabled model to examine the disaster coordination
preparedness of soft‐target organisations (STOs). Little attention is devoted to this matter in …

This paper offers a brief overview and critique of dominant approaches to knowledge
management (KM) and its links with innovation. It then draws upon a case study example to …

The most important promise of multiagent technology is flexibility. Multiagent technology
enhances the adaptability of IT systems in two ways: it facilitates “external” maintenance and …

Since the agent paradigm emerged, agent researchers have faced the challenge of building
open societies in which heterogeneous and independently designed entities can work …