In the last 10 years several approaches and technologies other than MAS (such as Web services and Grid computing) have emerged, with the support of the industry, providing their o...
In this Chapter we present the modification of a Differential Evolution algorithm to solve constrained optimization problems. The changes include a deterministic and a self-adapti...
Abstract— Peer-to-peer based distributed computing environments can be expected to be dynamic to greater of lesser degree. While node losses will not usually lead to catastrophic...
: Web portals have emerged as an important means of collaboration on the WWW, and the integration of ontologies promises to make them more accurate in how they serve users’ colla...
David Lewis, Kevin Feeney, Thanassis Tiropanis, Si...
Abstract. In order to construct and deploy massively multiagent systems, we must address one of the fundamental issues of distributed systems, the possibility of partial failures. ...