We present SNAP (Small-world Network Analysis and Partitioning), an open-source graph framework for exploratory study and partitioning of large-scale networks. To illustrate the c...
We consider a system with a dispatcher and several identical servers in parallel. Task processing times are known upon arrival. We first study the impact of the local scheduling ...
The acceptability and effectiveness of an expert system is critically dependent on its user interface. Natural language could be a well-suited communicative medium; however, curre...
When agents need to interact in order to solve some (possibly common) problem, resolving potential conflicts beforehand is often preferred to coordination during execution. Agents...
—“Autonomic systems” merge advancements in the field of multi-agent software design, dynamic analysis, and decentralized control in order to assist designers in constructing...