Industrial Agents explains how multi-agent systems improve collaborative networks to offer
dynamic service changes, customization, improved quality and reliability, and flexible …

Build your own intelligent agent system... Intelligent agent technology is a tool of modern
computer science that can be used to engineer complex computer programmes that behave …

The ability of production companies to rapidly develop and deploy effective and efficient
control systems is critical for success in the consumer-driven environment of contemporary …

As information technologies become increasingly distributed and accessible to larger
number of people and as commercial and government organizations are challenged to …

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 …

Unified Modeling Language (UML 2.0) is the upcoming standard of the Object Management
Group for specifying object-oriented software systems. In this paper, we will show how UML …

The problem of matching range images of human faces for the purpose of establishing a
correspondence between similar features of two faces is addressed. Distinct facial features …

The dynamic mechanical properties of compacted samples of synthetic calcium silicate
hydrate (C–S–H) were determined at variable stoichiometries (C/S ratio). The stiffness and …

Traditional manufacturing systems rely upon centralized, hierarchical systems that are not
responsive enough to the increasing demand for mass customization. Decentralized, or …

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