Abstract. In both research fields, Case-Based Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning, the system under consideration gains its expertise from experience. Utilizing this fundamental c...
Failure detectors — oracles that provide information about process crashes — are an important ion for crash tolerance in distributed systems. Although current failure-detector...
Alejandro Cornejo, Nancy A. Lynch, Srikanth Sastry
Abstract. Policies are declarations of constraints on the behaviour of components within distributed systems, and are often used to capture norms within agent-based systems. A few ...
Murat Sensoy, Timothy J. Norman, Wamberto Weber Va...
Successful transfer and uptake of qualitative reasoning technology for modelling and simulation in a variety of domains has been hampered by the lack of a structured methodology t...
Bert Bredeweg, Paulo Salles, Anders Bouwer, Jochem...
The social laws paradigm represents an important approach to the co-ordination of behaviour in multi-agent systems. In this paper we examine the relationship between social laws an...