Logic programs with ordered disjunction have shown to be a flexible specification language able to model common user preferences in a natural way. However, in some realistic scenarios the preferences should be linked to ...

In systems based on organisational specifications a reoccurring problem remains to be solved in the disparity between the level of abstractness of the organisational concepts and the concepts used in the implementation. ...

Abstract—Norms are a way to specify acceptable behaviour in a context. In literature there is a lot of work on norm theories, models and specifications on how agents might take norms into account when reasoning but few ...

Comprehensive models for organizations must, on the one hand, be able to specify global goals and requirements but, on the other hand, cannot assume that particular actors will always act according to the needs and ...

The capability of a computational system to deal with unexpected, changing situations and limited perception of the environment is becoming more a more relevant, in oder to make systems flexible and more reliable. Multi-agent ...

Cities concentrate enough Social Network (SN) activity to empower rich models. We present an approach to event discovery based on the information provided by three SN, minimizing the data properties used to maximize the ...

Non-compliance with prescribed medication is a major problem for elder people living alone in developed countries. Forgetfulness and confusion can lead to it, specially when multiple pathologies require a cocktail of diff ...

We present a system called UCTx, designed to model and automate some of the tasks performed by a Transplant Coordination Unit (UCTx) inside a Hospital. The aim of this work is to show how a multi-agent approach allows ...

Semiotics is a field on which research in Computer Science methodologies has focused, mainly concerning Syntax and Semantics. These methodologies, however, are lacking some flexibility for the continuously evolving web ...

Current visions about the Internet of the future require an evolution in the way distributed applications are designed, implemented, and deployed, moving from top-down approaches that generate partial, static (business) ...