A key element for outsourcing critical parts of a business process in Service Oriented Architectures are Service Level Agreements (SLAs). They build the key element to move from so...
We will demonstrate distributed conflict resolution in the context of personalized meeting scheduling. The demonstration will show how distributed constraint optimization can be u...
Pauline M. Berry, Cory Albright, Emma Bowring, Ken...
It has been recognised for some time that there are close links between the various logics developed for the analysis of multi-agent systems and the many game-theoretic models dev...
Paolo Ballarini, Michael Fisher, Michael Wooldridg...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. Although shopping agents provide convenience for consume...