Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...
The trends and recent changes in logistics lead to complex and partially conflicting requirements on logistic planning and control systems. Due to the lack of efficiency of curren...
Hagen Langer, Jan D. Gehrke, Joachim Hammer, Marti...
Internet based services, particularly asynchronous communication services, offer an environment suited to the rise of knowledge communities. Knowledge communities, or invisible co...
Due to the widespread trust threat under the open and dynamic Internet environment, the computer community has endeavored to engage in the studies of technologies for protecting a...
Distributed Multi-Agent Systems (DMAS) such as supply chains functioning in highly dynamic environments need to achieve maximum overall utility during operation. The utility from ...
Nathan Gnanasambandam, Seokcheon Lee, Soundar R. T...