As ubiquitous systems become increasingly complex, traditional solutions to manage and
control them reach their limits and pose a need for self-manageability. Also, heterogeneity of …

Role-based approaches are emerging technologies in information system design and
implementation. Roles have been acknowledged and applied in many fields for many years …

The agent oriented approach is doing great steps towards its (not yet reached) maturity; from
a software engineering point of view, it is today positively used for the analysis and design of …

Computing is increasingly ubiquitous, with everyday items including smartphones, cars,
clothes and household appliances gaining increasingly sophisticated computing and …

Designing the control infrastructure of future “smart” power grids is a challenging task. Future
grids will integrate a wide variety of heterogeneous producers and consumers that are …

The role concept represents a useful approach that has been exploited in different agent-
based systems, in particular applied to interactions between agents. There are some …

In many types of activities, communicative and material activities are so intertwined that the
one cannot be understood without taking the other into account. This is true of maritime and …

Cloud computing is an emergent technology in the process of becoming ubiquitous. This
requires strategies to deal with challenging situations. While a P2P structure is suitable …

Three models of coordination–Reo, Actors-Roles-Coordinators (ARC), and Policy-based
Russian Dolls (PBRD)–are compared and contrasted according to a set of coordination …

Agent coordination is a fundamental task in designing and operating multiagent systems.
However, in dynamically changing environments, coordination must balance proactive and …