As third party logistic services become popular, the role of software agents increases in importance in terms of the logistics scheduling of buyers and sellers. To support many mo...
—A methodology is presented for integrating effective-bandwidth-based routing for QoS-sensitive traffic and datagram routing of the best-effort traffic. To prevent excessive dela...
Application-level multicast is a new mechanism for enabling multicast in the Internet. Driven by the fast growth of network audio/video streams, application-level multicast has be...
We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variet...
Erik S. Steinmetz, John Collins, Scott Jamison, Ra...
Decentralized MDPs provide powerful models of interactions in multi-agent environments, but are often very difficult or even computationally infeasible to solve optimally. Here we...