Traditional problems in distributed systems include the Reliable Broadcast, Distributed Consensus, and Distributed Firing Squad problems. These problems require coordination only ...
Indirect interactions have been shown to be of interest in MultiAgent Systems (MAS), in the simulation area as well as in real apns. The environment is also emerging as a first-ord...
: Since Keynes (1930) and Hicks (1939) propounded their theory of normal backwardation, the issue of whether hedgers must pay speculators an insurance premium has remained controve...
As web-based online communities are rapidly growing, the agents in the communities need to know their measurable belief of trust for safe and successful interactions. In this pape...
—With increasing amount of sensitive user data stored in social computing systems (SCSs) and lack of consensus on how it should be protected under meaningful control by the avera...