Globalization has been a major phenomenon since the 1980s. As many multinational enterprises (MNEs) grow their presence globally, they have been supported by distributed IT resources that are organized either as centralized IT, decentralized IT, or federated IT. However, despite the significant increase in business complexity in the last decade, there has been relatively little systematic resea...

Organization of different iridophores into a [email protected] structure constitutes an evolutionary novelty for panther chameleons that allows their skins to display diverse color change. Inspired by this natural color-changing design, we present responsive multi-luminogen supramolecular hydrogel system generates programmable multi-color fluorescent Specifically, red Eu3+-amidopicolinate (R) l...

Coordination of Communication in Robot Teams by Reinforcement Learning p. 156 Self-organized Multi-agent System for Robot Deployment in Unknown Environments p. 165 Selective Method Based on Auctions for Map Inspection by Robotic Teams p. 175 Study of a Multi-Robot Collaborative Task through Reinforcement Learning p. 185 Design of Social Agents p. 192 Event-Based System for Generation of Traffic...

MENS is a bio-inspired model for higher level cognitive systems; it is an application of the Memory Evolutive Systems developed with Vanbremeersch to model complex multi-scale, multi-agent self-organized systems, such as biological or social systems. Its development resorts to an info-computationalism: first we characterize the properties of the human brain/mind at the origin of higher order co...

Hydrogels with organized structure have attracted remarkable attentions for bio-related applications. Among the preparation of hierarchical hydrogel materials, fabrication of hydrogel with multi-layers is an important branch. Although the generation mechanism of layers had been fully discussed, sub-layer structure was not sufficiently studied. In this research, multi-layered chitosan hydrogel w...

This paper presents a quality ontology that formalizes all the needed knowledge for the realization of a multi-perspective and adaptive evaluation of e-government services. Different perspectives are taken into account and the mappings between them are defined using the presented ontology, enabling a comprehensive and holistic view of quality. Based on the quality ontology presented, the evalua...

AOSE methodologies and models borrow various abstractions and concepts from the organization and sociology disciplines. Although they all view multi-agent system as organized society, the organizational abstractions, assumptions, concepts, and models in them are actually used in different ways. It is, therefore desirable to have a systematic way of analyzing and comparing the organizational and...

Research on Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) is undergoing a huge amount of interest and developments. In spite of the great amount of effort devoted to architectures and algorithms for holonic control of manufacturing systems there are little work about design methodologies. In this work we present a multi agent methodology for analysis and design of HMS, it is based on an abstract agent de...

Coordination, cooperation and exchange of information is important to the medical community. We design a new ontology, called Generic Human Disease Ontology (GHDO), by merging and aligning existing medical ontologies. The concepts of the GHDO are organized into the following four dimensions: Types, Symptoms, Causes and Treatments of human diseases. We also design a multi-agent system framework ...

— This paper presents an agent-based infrastructure for grid computing called GrEASe (Grid Environment based on Agent Services). Grids are typically complex, heterogeneous, and highly dynamic environments, and agent technology can satisfy the basic requirements of this kind of contexts. GrEASe is organized as a two layer structure: the lower one providing the resource independent functionalitie...