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DFKI
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Multiagent Systems Without Agents - Mirror-Holons for the Compilation and Enactment of Communication Structures
It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß
ICAC
2005
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Towards Autonomic Virtual Applications in the In-VIGO System
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
Jing Xu, Sumalatha Adabala, José A. B. Fort...
ICDCSW
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
On the Modeling of Honest Players in Reputation Systems
Reputation mechanisms are a key technique to trust assessment in large-scale decentralized systems. The effectiveness of reputation-based trust management fundamentally relies on ...
Qing Zhang, Ting Yu
GECCO
2007
Springer
142views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Simulations of egoistic and altruistic behaviors using the vidya multiagent system platform
This paper investigates the impacts of individual egoistic and altruistic behaviors in a virtual society built upon the Vidya game, used here as the social simulation and Multiage...
Marcelo Souza Pita, Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto
PERCOM
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Middleware Support for Quality of Context in Pervasive Context-Aware Systems
Middleware support for pervasive context-aware systems relieves context-aware applications from dealing with the complexity of context-specific operations such as context acquisit...
Kamran Sheikh, Maarten Wegdam, Marten van Sinderen