In this paper, we explore a new form of dissemination called Flash Dissemination that involves dissemination of fixed, rich information to a large number of recipients in as shor...
Mayur Deshpande, Bo Xing, Iosif Lazaridis, Bijit H...
Modern computing environments, such as enterprise data centers, Grids, and PlanetLab, introduce distributed services to address scalability, locality, and reliability. Web Service...
Robert Adams, Paul Brett, Subu Iyer, Dejan S. Milo...
More than 20 years after the launch of the public Internet, operator forums are still full of reports about temporary unreachability of complete networks. We propose FACT, a system...
The problem of providing tools to support legally valid negotiations between agents is becoming more and more critical. Agents are supposed to perform crucial tasks autonomously; ...
Roberto Bianchi, Andrea Fontana, Federico Bergenti
Conventional approaches to the modeling of autonomous agents and agent communication rely heavily on the ascription of mental properties like beliefs and intentions to the individ...
Matthias Nickles, Felix A. Fischer, Gerhard Wei&sz...