Application-layer networks (ALN) are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual ...
Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pa...
This paper surveys some applications of cooperative game theory to supply chain management. Special emphasis is placed on two important aspects of cooperative games: profit alloca...
There is a growing belief that the agents' cognitive structures play a central role on the enhancement of predicative capacities of decision-making strategies. This paper anal...
This paper focuses on load management in looselycoupled federated distributed systems. We present a distributed mechanism for moving load between autonomous participants using bil...
Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Michael S...
Argumentation allows agents to exchange additional information to argue about their beliefs and other mental attitudes during the negotiation process. Utterances and subsequent obs...