— Reputation systems have been a hot topic in the peer-to-peer community for several years. In a services-oriented distributed computing environment like the Grid, reputation sys...
Agents must decide with whom to interact, which is nontrivial when no central directories are available. A classical decentralized approach is referral systems, where agents adapt...
Abstract— We consider a convex unconstrained optimization problem that arises in a network of agents whose goal is to cooperatively optimize the sum of the individual agent objec...
Angelia Nedic, Alexander Olshevsky, Asuman E. Ozda...
We propose an algorithm for generating a Priority Rewrite System (PRS) for an arbitrary process language in the OSOS format such that rewriting of process terms is sound for bisim...
Simulations often depend heavily on random numbers, yet the impact of random number generators is recognized seldom. The generation of random numbers for simulations is not trivia...
Roland Ewald, Johannes Rossel, Jan Himmelspach, Ad...