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,...
agent-oriented system. We show the complexity to be linear time for one of these logics and polynomial time for another, thus providing encouraging results with respect to the prac...
— Stochastic activity networks (SANs) are a widely used formalism for describing complex systems that have random behavior. Sophisticated software tools exist for the modeling an...
David M. Nicol, Steve Hanna, Frank Stratton, Willi...
In many multiagent settings, situations arise in which agents must collectively make decisions while not every agent is supposed to have an equal amount of influence in the outcom...
Abstract. Human users trying to plan and accomplish informationdependent goals in highly dynamic environments with prevalent uncertainty must consult various types of information s...