Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on‐line decision
making. There are two main areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we …

The use of the related terms “agent‐based”,“multi‐agent”,“software agent” and “intelligent
agent” have witnessed significant growth in the Geographic Information Science (GIScience) …

Stock price prediction is an important task for most investors and professional analysts.
However, it is a tough problem because of the uncertainties involved in prices. This paper …

This paper outlines the grand challenges in global sustainability research and the objectives
of the FP7 Future Internet PPP program within the Digital Agenda for Europe. Large user …

Agent-based systems have become an important area of research since the 1990s. They
have been applied to a range of domains that are intrinsically complex. Among these …

Area coverage control with multi-agent systems is formulated here in the framework of
Bellman's optimality. In the literature, optimal configurations are obtained by Lloyd's …

Rapid development of information technology has changed people's attitudes towards
information usage. To tender to the public's expectation, information system must feature …

The author exemplifies the framework of PSI (Pervasive System for Indoor-GIS) for exploring
the spatial model of dynamic human behavior and developing various services in an …

According to Parunak (2000), software agents are best suited for applications that are
modular, decentralized, changeable, ill-structured, and complex. Parunak draws this …

Nowadays attaining the general and comprehensive information about customers by means
of traditional methods is difficult for CEO's because of the agility and complexity of …