Assigning tasks to agents is complex, especially in highly dynamic environments. Typical protocol-based approaches for task assignment such as Contract Net have proven their value...
Abstract—Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems show numerous advantages over centralized systems, such as load balancing, scalability, and fault tolerance, and they require certain function...
Thomas Bocek, Ela Hunt, David Hausheer, Burkhard S...
This paper proposes an efficient, decentralized algorithm for determining the topological relationship between two regions monitored by a geosensor network. Many centralized algo...
Matt Duckham, Myeong Hun Jeong, Sanjiang Li, Joche...
In the telecommunications sector product development must minimise time to market while delivering high levels of dependability, availability, maintainability and scalability. High...
There are many application classes where the users are flexible with respect to the output quality. At the same time, there are other constraints, such as the need for real-time ...