The paper generalizes the notion of a social law, the foundation of the theory of artificial social systems developed for coordinating Multi-Agent Systems. In an artificial social...
New and emerging P2P applications require sophisticated range query capability and also have strict requirements on query correctness, system availability and item availability. W...
Prakash Linga, Adina Crainiceanu, Johannes Gehrke,...
A strength of commitment protocols is that they enable agents to act flexibly, thereby enabling them to accommodate varying local policies and respond to exceptions. A consequent ...
— Over the years, the use of global grid environments have become widespread. In order to make applications robust against the dynamics of those grid environments it is essential...
Reputation systems have been popular in estimating the trustworthiness and predicting the future behavior of nodes in a large-scale distributed system where nodes may transact wit...