Group communication, providing virtual synchrony semantics, is a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. For applications that require a large number of groups, s...
— The paper focuses on the problem how a community of distributed agents may autonomously invent and coordinate lexicons and grammars. Although our earlier experiments have shown...
Evolving software-intensive systems from one consistent state to another is a challenging activity due to the intricate inter-dependencies among the components. In this paper, we ...
Today, many software-based, reactive systems offer a multitude of functionality. One way to master the development of such a system is to model its functionality on an abstract le...
Alexander Gruler, Alexander Harhurin, Judith Hartm...
CHOPRA, AMIT KHUSHWANT. Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines. (Under the direction of Dr. Munindar P. Singh). Protocols in open and dynamic multiagent systems cannot be modeled via fo...