Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
A large number of network applications require a particular Quality of Service (QoS), that can be provided through proper network resource allocation. Furthermore, certain applicat...
SiMPLE++ is an object-oriented simulation environment for modeling all types of manufacturing, logistics and service systems. AESOP’s SiMPLE++ is a fully object-oriented impleme...
Research can rarely be performed on large-scale, distributed systems at the level of thousands of workstations. In this paper, we describe the motivating constraints, design princ...
This paper introduces a partition of the possible forms of knowledge according to their rela tionship to the basic objective of an intelligent agent, namely to act successfully ...