This paper contributes to the analysis of the question how altruistic behaviour can be in an agent’s own interest. The question is addressed by involving a temporal dimension in ...
Tibor Bosse, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur, David We...
We outline a model for a society of agents based upon one of the classical theories of sociology: The Weber’s model. We first investigate its links to agent technology through i...
Jacques Calmet, Anusch Daemi, Regine Endsuleit, Th...
In Antwerp the dream of an information highway became reality a long time ago. Antwerp has its electronic highway and every day it grows new side-roads and exits. The main aim is t...
Organisations can be defined as a set of entities regulated by mechanisms of social order and created by more or less autonomous actors to achieve common goals. Multi-agent systems...
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...