A fundamental task in multi-agent systems is matchmaking, which is to retrieve and classify service descriptions of agents that (best) match a given service request. Several approa...
Abstract. Many computational problems linked to uncertainty and preference management can be expressed in terms of computing the marginal(s) of a combination of a collection of val...
We develop a simulation model for the ATM ABR service, and use it to engineer ABR congestion control behavior. Although significant work has been performed on ABR rate allocation a...
Sonia Fahmy, Raj Jain, Rohit Goyal and Bobby Vanda...
In the field of communication networks, protocol engineers usually employ several tools focused on specific kinds of analysis, such as performance or correctness. This paper pres...
Software systems are becoming more open, distributed, pervasive, and connected. In such systems, the relationships between loosely-coupled application elements become non-determini...