Negotiation is a fundamental mechanism in distributed multi-agent systems. Since negotiation is a time-spending process, in many scenarios agents have to take into account the pas...
Abstract. The goal of mobile agent systems is to provide a distributed computing infrastructure supporting applications whose components can move between different execution enviro...
Sebastian Fischmeister, Giovanni Vigna, Richard A....
Multiagent systems (MAS) are spreading, in the academic world as well as in industry. Nevertheless, MAS design is still a problem. The agent community now has some experience. So, ...
Mobile agents must be prepared to execute on different hosts and therefore in different execution environments. Even when a homogenous exenvironment is offered by abstracting th...
Real-time control has become increasingly important as technologies are moved from the lab into real world situations. The complexity associated with these systems increases as co...