This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
—Model-Based Development (MBD) provides an al level of abstraction, the model, which lets engineers focus on the business aspect of the developed system. MBD permits automatic tr...
Abstract— Although direct reciprocity (Tit-for-Tat) contribution systems have been successful in reducing freeloading in peerto-peer overlays, it has been shown that, unless the ...
Raul Landa, David Griffin, Richard G. Clegg, Eleni...
—Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a rich knowledge about human health and disease by its special way evolved along a very long history. As modern medicine is achieving much...
Researchers have cogently presented the technical case for converged telecommunications systems. However, it is not clear how market-based telecommunications providers are embraci...