For Peer-2-Peer (P2P) networks to realize their full potential their nodes need to coordinate and cooperate, to improve the performance of the network as a whole. But this requires...
In real world applications, agents - be they software agents or autonomous robots - inevitably face erroneous situations that have not been planned for. Re-planning can sometimes ...
Robert J. Ross, Rem W. Collier, Gregory M. P. O'Ha...
We present a domain model and protocol for the exchange of recommendations by selfish agents without the aid of any centralized control. Our model captures a subset of the realiti...
A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) model can be preprocessed to ensure that any choices made will lead to solutions, without the need to backtrack. This can be especially usef...
J. Christopher Beck, Tom Carchrae, Eugene C. Freud...
We consider Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DisCSP) when control of variables and constraints is distributed among a set of agents. This paper presents a distributed ...