Engineering individual components of a multi-agent system and their interactions is a complex and error-prone task in urgent need of methods and tools. Prototyping is a valuable t...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Carles Sierra, Marc Es...
Abstract. We consider the broadcast exclusion problem: how to transmit a message over a broadcast channel shared by N = 2n users so that all but some specified coalition of k excl...
Fairness is an important concept in design and implementation of distributed systems. At the specification level, fairness usually serves as an assumption for proving liveness. At ...
The pre-computation of data cubes is critical to improving the response time of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems and can be instrumental in accelerating data mining tas...
Ying Chen, Frank K. H. A. Dehne, Todd Eavis, Andre...
This article develops a theoretical framework of distributed representations to explore the representational properties in group problem solving. The basic principle of distribute...