Multi-agent systems are an increasingly important software paradigm and in many of its applications agents cooperate to achieve a particular goal. This requires the design of effi...
Taolue Chen, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, David Parker, A...
Large scale open, heterogeneous, distributed environments such as the Internet, are the environments in which (intelligent) agents need to be able to function and survive. These e...
Frances M. T. Brazier, David G. A. Mobach, Benno J...
This article presents a multi-agent method to tackle multidisciplinary optimisation, based on the notions of cooperation and self-regulation. It is focused on the preliminary airc...
Jean-Baptiste Welcomme, Marie Pierre Gleizes, Roma...
Presently, there is no satisfactory model for dealing with political autonomy of agents in policy based management. A theory of atomic policy units called ‘promises’ is therefo...
For Peer-2-Peer (P2P) networks to realize their full potential their nodes need to coordinate and cooperate, to improve the performance of the network as a whole. But this requires...