Abstract. The past few years have seen the emergence of a large number of proposals for electronic payments over open networks. Among these proposals is the Secure Electronic Trans...
Abstract. In Distributed Problem-solving (DPS) systems a group of purposefully designed computational agents interact and co-ordinate their activities so as to jointly achieve a gl...
The CARMA-NTG protocol is presented and analyzed. CARMA-NTG dynamically divides the channel into cycles of variable length; each cycle consists of a contention period and a group-...
In this paper we introduce Challenger, a multiagent system that performs completely distributed resource allocation. Challenger consists of agents which individually manage local ...
ing with shared data abstractions Simon Dobson1 and Don Goodeve2 1 Well-Founded Systems Unit, CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK 2 School of Computer Studies, University of Le...