Principles of software evaluation can be used for quality assessment and measurement for networked services and distributed applications. A specific method for measuring important service characteristics is therefore presented. The method and the measurement procedure allows to compare the actual characteristics of service quality with the required characteristics and thresholds. The approach c...

One relevant aspect in the development of the Semantic Web framework is the achievement of a real inter-agents communication capability at the semantic level. The agents should be able to communicate and understand each other using standard communication protocols freely, that is, without needing a laborious a priori preparation, before the communication takes place. For that setting we present...

Modern multiagent technology can be applied fruitfully to supply chain or to be more precise to demand chain management. In current research there is not much discussed in this direction because today’s business processes are often characterized more by small solutions than by integrated ones. This paper will prove that this approach offers very new and challenging possibilities to manage deman...

We present an agent based model of technology diffusion where bounded rational agents are faced with uncertainty about the performance of the new technology versus the old technology as well as spatial externalities. We observe that a wide range of possible phenomena emerge, including modest evolutionary change, ‘S-curve’ technology adoption, as well as more disruptive “punctuated equilibrium” ...

Despite several examples of deployed agent systems, there remain barriers to the large-scale adoption of agent technologies. In order to understand these barriers, this paper considers aspects of marketing theory which deal with diffusion of innovations and their relevance to the agents domain and the current state of diffusion of agent technologies. In particular, the paper examines the role o...

This paper describes an implementation of an agent-based homebanking service for a mobile network. Agents offer the prospect for revolutionising the provision of services in telecommunications networks by allowing dynamic distribution of service related data and processing across networks and terminals. At Ericsson Eurolab, Germany, an agent-based solution has been implemented for “services on ...

living. services and applications to people: autonomy, distribution, adaptation, and responsiveness are key characteristics of AmI computing components.2 Researchers working on the Home sERvices for specialised elderly Assisted living (HERA) project (w3.mi.parisdescartes. fr/hera), supported by the AAL Joint Programme (www.aal-europe.eu), built an AAL system to provide cost-effective specialize...

In the recent time the computer systems have evolved from monolithic computing device to much complex client-server environment. Mobile-agent paradigm is one such technology. It has numerous application where it can be beneficial, to name a few areas where the mobile-agents have potential deployment are database search, distributed systems and e-commerce. This technology has given a new directi...

Intelligent Agent technology is an important, exciting and relatively new paradigm in software design. The term intelligent agent is now used as an umbrella term representing a wide range of software with different characteristics and abilities [1]. This fact led to many definitions of intelligent agent, but the authors agree with the definition proposed by Wooldridge and Jennings [2] stating t...