Abstract. We consider the self-deployment problem in a ring for a network of identical sensors: starting from some initial random placement in the ring, the sensors in the network ...
Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro
Cooperative multi-agent systems are ones in which several agents attempt, through their interaction, to jointly solve tasks or to maximize utility. Due to the interactions among t...
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 paper presents the computational logic foundations of a model of agency called the KGP (Knowledge, Goals and Plan) model. This model allows the specification of heterogeneous...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, ...
We describe an environment for distributed computing that uses the concept of well-known paradigms. The main advantage of paradigmoriented distributed computing (PODC) is that the...
Hairong Kuang, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt...