The multiplication of architecture description languages, component models and platforms implies a serious dilemma for component based software architects. On the one hand, they have to choose a language to describe concrete configurations which will be automatically deployed on execution platforms. On the other hand, they wish to capitalize their software architectures independently of any des...

Effective teams are crucial for organisations, especially in environments that require teams to be constantly created and dismantled, such as software development, scientific experiments, crowd-sourcing, or the classroom. Key factors influencing team performance are competences and personality of team members. Hence, we present a computational model to evaluate proficiency and congeniality of t...

In our daily lives we often have to face binary decisions where we seek to take the minority’s choice, e.g., in traffic scenarios where we have to choose between similar alternative routes. We have studied agent coordination mechanisms in a binary decision model introduced in the literature recently: the Minority Game. Extending this model, we have introduced personalities which model certain t...