: Access control is an important aspect in guaranteeing data privacy within XML data sources which are accessed by users with different access rights. The goal of predicative acces...
This paper describes and evaluates three methods for coordinating multiple agents. These agents interact in two ways. First, they are able to work together to achieve a common poo...
Steve A. Chien, Anthony Barrett, Tara A. Estlin, G...
In order for one agent to meet its goals, it will often need to influence another to act on its behalf, particularly in a society in which agents have heterogenous sets of abilitie...
Dionysis Kalofonos, Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicho...
Simple Temporal Networks (STNs) are frequently used in scheduling applications, as they provide a powerful and general tool for managing temporal constraints. One obstacle to thei...
One of the difficulties to adapt MDPs for the control of cooperative multi-agent systems, is the complexity issued from Decentralized MDPs. Moreover, existing approaches can not ...