Abstract. We introduce the notion of coordination mechanisms to improve the performance in systems with independent selfish and noncolluding agents. The quality of a coordination ...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Akash Nan...
Combining third party software components to customer-individual application systems requires first, standardized specification techniques for describing the technical as well as ...
Agent-oriented modeling of software and information systems and agent-based simulation are commonly viewed as two separate fields with different concepts and techniques. We argue t...
This paper considers the problem of performing decentralised coordination of low-power embedded devices (as is required within many environmental sensing and surveillance applicat...
Alessandro Farinelli, Alex Rogers, Adrian Petcu, N...
We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...