Abstract. Invariants that incrementally maintain the value of expresder assignments to their variables are a natural abstraction to build high-level local search algorithms. But th...
Peer-to-peer systems have the desirable property that the amount of resources available in the system increase as demand for services increases due to growth of the system. We exp...
Abstract. We study the problem of checking the competence of communicative agents operating in a global society in order to receive and offer electronic services. Such a society wi...
Agent-based computing in Arti cial Intelligence has given rise to a number of diverse and competing proposals for agent programming languages. Agents, in the sense we are using it...
Koen V. Hindriks, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der ...
A file data model for algorithmic skeletons is proposed, focusing on transparency and efficiency. Algorithmic skeletons correspond to a high-level programming model that takes a...