Community is a common phenomenon in natural ecosystems, human societies as well as artificial multi-agent systems such as those in web and Internet based applications. In many sel...
The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically focused o...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carl Kesselma...
We study the dynamics of the Naming Game [Baronchelli et al., (2006) J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. P06014] in empirical social networks. This stylized agentbased model captures essen...
In this paper, we analyse how autonomic resource management can be achieved within a system that lacks centralized information about current system demand and the state of system ...
Mariusz Jacyno, Seth Bullock, Terry R. Payne, Nick...
The study focuses on a class of discrete-time multi-agent systems modelling opinion dynamics with decaying confidence. Essentially, we propose an agreement protocol that impose a p...