What distinguishes e-commerce from ordinary commerce? What distinguishes it from distributed computation? In this paper we propose a performative theory of e-commerce, drawing on ...
Paxos is a well known algorithm for achieving consensus in distributed environments with uncertain processing and communication timing. Implementations of its variants have been s...
Chryssis Georgiou, Procopis Hadjiprocopiou, Peter ...
In this paper we consider how a BDI agent might determine its best course of action. We draw on previous work which has presented a model of persuasion over action and we discuss ...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...
: This paper presents a fuzzy set based decision support model for taking uncertainty into account when making security investment decisions for distributed systems. The proposed m...
The paper presents the Multi Agent System (MAS) designed for the large scale parallel computations. The special kind of diffusionbased scheduling enables to decompose and allocate...
Maciej Smolka, Piotr Uhruski, Robert Schaefer, Mar...