Fleet management systems are commonly used to coordinate mobility and delivery services in a broad variety of domains. However, their traditional top-down control architecture becomes a bottleneck in open and dynamic environments, where scalability, proactiveness, and autonomy are becoming key factors for their success. Here, the authors present an abstract event-based architecture for fleet ma...

Distributed simulation enables participants situated in different geographical locations to share a common virtual world, which is called a Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE). Among the different research topics concerned with DVEs, there is a current trend of linking Multi-Agent systems and DVEs together. With the properties of autonomy, social ability, reactivity and proactiveness, agents ...

stimulated by well-designed competitions that tackle intriguing and often very complex problems. Chess, poker, stock trading, real-time strategy games, robot soccer, robot rescue or planning, and autonomous vehicles are among the most well known. Adaptability, proactiveness, and interoperability are essential characteristics of these games. Many of these competitions focus on development of rat...

In this paper, an integrated multilevel, control-theoretic framework has been proposed for effectively handling integration of planning, scheduling, and rescheduling. A general resourceconstrained, multistage, multiproduct plant operating as a hybrid flowshop facility has been considered. The proposed approach is based on the inherent hierarchical decomposition of the overall decision-making pr...

Recommender systems help users to identify particular items that best match their tastes or preferences. When we apply the agent theory to this domain, a standard centralized recommender system becomes a distributed world of recommender agents. Therefore, due to the agent’s world, a new information filtering method appears: the opinion-based filtering method. Its main idea is to consider other ...

While self-regulation has long been recognized as an important characteristic of an individual, instruments assessing the general aptitude of self-regulation remain limited especially in Asian countries. This study re-validated Carey et al.'s (2004) Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire based on a national sample of Taiwanese college students (N = 1,988). Item analysis, exploratory factor analysi...

Ever increasing complexity, higher demand for proactiveness, and high speeds of innovation resulting from heavy competition, demand the adoption of more intelligent systems, which are capable of producing optimal results, in all fields. B2C E-Commerce applications are no different. The major challenge in transitioning a brick and mortar business to an online environment is to provide the same u...

Theorists in various fields have viewed corporate success differently depending on their ideological persuasions. This paper attempts to critically review and synthetize the previously fragmented literature around two main approaches. The first is grounded in traditional economic theory and industrial organization tradition. The second is rooted in a resource and competency-based view of the fi...

Reputation is often cited as an instrument to enforce norm compliance: agents that do not follow the norms have their reputation decreased. Conceiving reputation as a collective process, i.e. a kind of shared voices as proposed by Conte & Paolucci, is not a simple task. In this paper, we propose a first step in this direction by instrumenting multi-agent organisation with an artifact that publi...

Is the relationship between a firm's environmental management practices (EMPs) and its financial performance (FP) dependent on industry pollution-related ("context") characteristics? If so, how? Drawing upon Scott's (2004) "dualist" theory of organizations, we propose and test a model that examines the effect of EMPs on firm financial performance both withinand between-industry contexts. In ess...