Complex software systems development require appropriate high-level features to better
and easily tackle the new requirements in terms of interactions, concurrency and distribution …

Purpose Empowerment is recognised as being a key to achieving organisational agility.
Typically associated with a particular leadership style, implications of empowerment for …

The article provides an overview of the challenges and the state of the art of the discipline of
Enterprise Architecture (EA), with emphasis on the challenges and future development …

Purpose This paper takes a holistic and process-based view on agility from a Middle
Management (MM) perspective. Its purpose is to identify subjective factors of agility …

Abstract janus is a new multiagent platform that was specifically designed to deal with the
implementation and deployment of holonic and multiagent systems. It is based on an …

System integration from sub-systems has always been a major engineering problem, which
is progressively exacerbated by (1) sub-systems becoming more diverse, self-* and …

Holonic multi-agent systems (HMASs) have recently attracted many researches in multi-
agent systems community. Inspired from the multi-level and self-similar structures of social …

In this work, we propose a new distributed, dynamic, and recursive planning approach able
to consider the hierarchical nature of the holonic agent and the unpredictable evolution of its …

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 …