Brokers are used in many multi-agent systems for locating agents, for routing and sharing information, for managing the system, and for legal purposes, as independent third partie...
Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque
Grid computing aims to connect large numbers of geographically and organizationally distributed resources to increase computational power, resource utilization, and resource acces...
Resource brokering in Grids is nowadays handled by resource brokers that require detailed knowledge of the state of the resources that they broker. In business settings, surrender...
We consider the problem of query plan optimization in information brokers. Information brokers are programs that facilitate access to collections of information sources by hiding ...
InfoSleuth1is an agent-based system for information discovery and retrieval in a dynamic, open environment. This paper discusses InfoSleuth's multibroker design and implement...