- As scientific achievements in the area of Healthcare have increased during the last decade, inevitably there has been an increase of treatment quality. One of the challenges to b...
Normative environments are used to regulate multiagent interactions. In business encounters, agents representing business entities make contracts including norms that prescribe wh...
Fault tolerance is a constant concern in data centers where servers have to run with a minimal level of failures. Changes on the operating conditions or on server demands, and var...
Today, many software projects are being developed by collaborating programmers working across multiple locations. Whatever the reason may be, outsourcing, organizational structure...
The enormous number of questions needed to acquire a full preference model when the size of the outcome space is large forces us to work with partial models that approximate the u...