We address long-term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents. We present a coalition formation mechanism designed at the agent level as a decision problem. Th...
Julita Vassileva, Silvia Breban, Michael C. Horsch
Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
This paper contributes to the analysis of the question how altruistic behaviour can be in an agent’s own interest. The question is addressed by involving a temporal dimension in ...
Tibor Bosse, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur, David We...
In this paper we propose a situated decision support system for efficient negotiating of service level agreements (SLAs) in Grids. Situated decision...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures exhibit attractive properties for a wide range of real world systems. As a result they are increasingly being applied in the design of ap...
Steven Willmott, Josep M. Pujol, Ulises Cort&eacut...