An increasing interest is emerging on the development of smart grid cyber-physical system
testbeds. As new communication and information technologies emerge, innovative cyber …

Throughout the evolution of software systems, empirical methodologies have been used in
their development process, even in the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, to develop IoT …

Abstract JADE (Java Agent Development Framework) is a software framework to make easy
the development of multi-agent applications in compliance with the FIPA specifications …

SWI-Prolog is neither a commercial Prolog system nor a purely academic enterprise, but
increasingly a community project. The core system has been shaped to its current form while …

Multi-agent systems (MAS) consist of multiple intelligent agents that interact to solve
problems that may be beyond the capabilities of a single agent or system. For many years …

Agent-based models (ABMs) are one of the most effective and successful methods for
analyzing real-world complex systems by investigating how modeling interactions on the …

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 …

Agent technology currently plays an important role in complex software development. The
underlying paradigm offers a large repertoire of original concepts, architectures, interaction …

Since a number of years agent technology is considered one of the most innovative
technologies for the development of distributed software systems. While not yet a …

In the future Internet of Things (IoT), smart objects will be the fundamental building blocks for
the creation of cyber-physical smart pervasive systems in a great variety of application …