To complement standard fitness functions, we propose "Fitness Importance" (FI) as a novel meta-heuristic for online learning systems. We define FI and show how it can be...
As web-based transactions become an essential element of everyday corporate and commerce activities, it becomes increasingly important that the performance of web-based services b...
Chang Li, Gang Peng, Kartik Gopalan, Tzi-cker Chiu...
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
We analyse scenarios in which self-interested agents negotiate with each other in order to agree on deals to exchange resources. We consider two variants of the framework, one whe...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
This paper presents an argumentative version of the well known alternating offers negotiation protocol. The negotichanism is based on an abstract preference based argumentation fr...