We explore the relationship between properties of the network defined by connected agents and the global system performance. This is achieved by means of a novel class of optimiza...
Abstract. Software agents are a promising technology for today's complex, distributed systems. Methodologies and techniques that address testing and reliability of multi agent...
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,...
This paper proposes a multi-agent system architecture based on introspective agents provided with an expressive communication language and reasoning capabilities on their skills. ...
Abstract— We present a formal framework for robotic cooperation in which we use an extension to Petri nets, known as workflow nets, to establish a protocol among mobile agents b...
Yehia Thabet Kotb, Steven S. Beauchemin, John L. B...