CCIA
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Agents are situated autonomous entities that perceive and act in their environment, and communicate with other agents. An agent usually starts a conversation by querying another a...
MABS
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1998
Springer
Multi-agent simulations aim at representing the dynamics of complex systems as resulting from multiple interactions between autonomous entities including their own perception of lo...
WETICE
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2000
IEEE
Protocols represent the allowed interactions among communicating components. Protocols are essential in electronic commerce to constrain the behaviors of autonomous entities. Trad...
VLDB
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, we address issues related to sharing information in a distributed system consisting of autonomous entities, each of which holds a private database. Semi-honest beha...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2003
ACM
Literature on information integration across databases tacitly assumes that the data in each database can be revealed to the other databases. However, there is an increasing need ...