An Analysis of Software Agents, Environ-ments and Applications School (WESAAC): Retrospective, Relevance, and Trends

Abstract

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) software has been increasing dramatically in last years. In this context, the Software Agents, Environments and Applications School (WESAAC) is a Brazilian event of MAS which is in its tenth edition. When studying a research area, it is important to identify the most active groups, topics, the research trends and so forth. This study aims to investigate how the WESAAC is evolving, by analysing the papers published in its ten editions. We adopted a research strategy that combines scoping study and systematic review good practices. We identify the most participating institutions and authors, the main topics discussed, the types of the contributions, the conferences and journals that have most referenced WESAAC papers, the publications with the greatest impact, and the trends in MAS. We found 128 papers over the 10 WESAAC editions, which were analysed and discussed.

GECA: A Global Edge Computing Architecture

“…The number of heterogeneous «things» such as buildings, machines, vehicles, homes, people connected to the Internet or to each other through electronic devices that communicate using a set of standard protocols, form a set of networks that can generate, process, store and obtain useful information for organizations. The EC allows the optimization of computing processes as it does not depend on cloud computing for the execution of these processes [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30].…”

Distribution of quantum keys over commercial networks

“…They follow the rest of the steps of the BB84 protocol to exchange the key. Remember that the last step of the BB84 algorithm discards the values that have not matched [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53].…”

A deep tech architecture for intelligent IoT systems

“…In relation to this issue, the Edge Computing (EC) paradigm, with the idea of supporting devices with a cloud closer to the edge of the network, appears as an attractive solution. However, adding Edge resources complicates network management, as several devices will face them [56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63].…”