The World Wide Web has become an invaluable information resource but the explosion of available information has made web search a time consuming and complex process. The large num...
Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, A...
TORRENT is an EU-Supported Framework 5 project that is showing how intelligent control and negotiation capabilities can be built into access networks so as to give the residential...
Eric Scharf, Peter Hamer, Konstantinos Smparounis,...
This paper addresses an important question in the development of multi-agent systems—how can we create robust systems out of the often unreliable agents and infrastructures we ca...
Combinatorial Auctions (CAs), where users bid on combination of items, have emerged as a useful tool for resource allocation in distributed systems. However, two main difficulties...
Transportable agents are autonomous programs. They can move through a heterogeneous network of computers under their own control, migrating from host to host. They can sense the s...