Background The burden of cardiovascular events in Africa is projected to rise significantly in the coming decade, placing ...

This is an edited book with 21 chapters contributed by who created the MDA discipline. The book is divided into four parts: IEC 61499 Basics; Design Guidelines and Application Development; Industrial ...

The objective of this paper is to discuss the design and implementation of a multi-agent system that provides intelligence to a distributed smart grid - a smart grid located at a distribution level. A ...

Not that long ago, teams were typically composed of people with similar skills working in the same place. Their efforts were based on the idea that by working together in a well-managed process ...