Agent technology has recently become one of the most vibrant and fastest growing areas in
information technology. Within this booming area, intelligent information agents are …

This article discusses the role of scales to measure activities of daily living, in particular in
Alzheimer's disease, in the assessment and management of dementia. It explains the …

This paper introduces a realistic 3D model supported virtual environment for environmental
education, that highlights the importance of water resource sharing by focusing on the …

A predominant benefit of social living is the ability to share knowledge that cannot be gained
through the information an individual accumulates based on its personal experience alone …

Many potential applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing extend classical AI
in two ways. First, they go beyond modeling a single decision-maker to incorporate the …

A major challenge within open markets is the ability to satisfy service demand with an
adequate supply of service providers, especially when such demand may be volatile due to …

Natural resource allocation is a complex problem that entails difficulties related to the nature
of real world problems and to the constraints related to the socio-economical aspects of the …

Abstract In Distributed Problem-solving systems a group of purposefully designed
computational agents interact and co-ordinate their activities so as to jointly achieve a global …

A decentralized multiagent system comprises agents who act autonomously based on local
knowledge. Achieving coordination in such a system is nontrivial, but is essential in most …

We are in the process of building a proof‐of‐concept automated system for scheduling all
the transportation for the United States military down to a low level of detail. This is a huge …