In the RETSINA multi-agent system, each agent is provided with an internal planning component—the RETSINA planner. Each agent, using its internal planner, formulates detailed pla...
Massimo Paolucci, Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara, Di...
We consider a multi-agent optimization problem where agents aim to cooperatively minimize a sum of local objective functions subject to a global inequality constraint and a global ...
Elements of transaction processing become more and more accepted as a base for general purpose distributed computing.We have developed an action concept with an extended functiona...
The database community has produced extensive research on the concurrency control problem in the context of traditional databases. However, this traditional model is not suitable ...
Peer-to-peer networks have gained a lot of attention over the last couple of years, mainly due to the popularity of the free multimedia file-sharing program Napster and a legal ba...
Natalia Stakhanova, Sergio Ferrero, Johnny S. Wong...