Given the diverse multi-agent system (MAS) implementations developed for various domains, there has been a lack of a comprehensive method for analyzing and evaluating the assortment of MAS architectures and technologies resident in those architectures. With a formal method to investigate agent architectures, MAS designers can answer 1) how performance criteria affect design decisions, 2) how de...

Today our Nation's security, economic progress, and modern lifestyle all rely upon maintaining a trustworthy digital infrastructure that is resilient and responsive to threats. Critical life-sustaining infrastructures—such as the ones that deliver electricity and water, control air traffic, and support our financial system—all depend on networked information systems making up the Nation's cyber...

focus of the strategic human resource management is presenting a model of strategies in the hr field to enable the organization achieve its strategic objectives. the main purpose of this study is providing a systematic and fairly standard framework for developing hr strategies. in order to show the applicability of the proposed framework, hr strategies in an oil industry company were developed....

nowadays planning a strategic management system using appropriate tools and technologies to reduce the negative consequences resulting from lack of proper waste management in rural areas is essential. it was tried that in the study population which includes approximately 74/37 percent of the minab city's population to collect data from surveys of people attending in person and through ques...

A number of strategies exist for the recovery from execution-time plan failures. One manner in which these strategies difFer is the degree of dependence on the reliability and availability of the planner’s knowledge. The best strategy, however, may be dependent on a number of considerations, including the type of plan failure, the criticality of the failure, the availability of resources, and t...

Strategies are ubiquitous in automated deduction and reasoning systems, yet only since about ten years have they been studied in their own right. In the two communities of automated deduction and rewriting, workshops have been launched to make progress towards a deeper understanding of the nature of strategies, their descriptions, their properties, and their usage. Recently strategies have come...

On the integration of www based information systems into the daily research and teaching practices of Art History departments. The online presentation of Art History departments in conventional HTML format is becoming a vital forum for the key research and teaching information. A www-project at the Art History department of the Humboldt University, Berlin shows the potential of how dynamically ...

The New Zealand Government is strongly focused on better, smarter, faster public services delivering what the customer needs. Significant change is occurring, including machinery of government changes. To support this, many departments are re-evaluating their strategies and their use of KPIs, benchmarking and the balanced scorecard. These tools, used appropriately, provide insight to track stra...