In cooperative multiagent systems an alternative that maximizes the social welfare--the sum of utilities--can only be selected if each agent reports its full utility function. Thi...
This paper presents a class of multi-agent systems where the state of each agent is driven by its own local protocol, and by exogenous time-varying input signal. These inputs may r...
This paper presents a generic meta-model of multi-agent systems based on organizational concepts such as groups, roles and structures. This model, called AALAADIN, defines a very ...
This paper describes a novel approach for managing service-centric communications networks called distributed autonomic management (DAM). Current approaches to network management ...
Mobile agents are autonomous programs that migrate from one machine to another within a network on behalf of a client, thus, they are ideal for mobile computing environments since ...