Agents are a potential technology with many applications. It is urgent to develop appropriate methodologies for the development and deployment of agent-oriented applications. This ...
We consider the problem of manipulating elections via cloning candidates. In our model, a manipulator can replace each candidate c by one or more clones, i.e., new candidates that...
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Arkadii M. Slinko
We propose a system for the detection of unauthorized cloning of mobile agents by malicious hosts. The system can detect clones after the fact, identify the culprit, and then seek...
Multi-agent systems are subject to performance bottlenecks in cases where agents cannot perform tasks by themselves due to insufficient resources. Solutions to such problems inclu...
Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara, Prasad Chalasani, So...
This paper presents a high performance service based mobile agent computation model. The scalability and reliability of this model is secured through the service clone policy and a...