Multi-Agent Systems are a promising way of dealing with large complex problems. However, it is not yet clear just how much complexity or pre-existing structure individual agents m...
This paper presents a two-leveled mobile agent system for electronic commerce. It is based on mobile agents as mediators and uses the publish/subscribe paradigm for registration an...
A mobile agent (robot), modeled as a finite automaton, has to visit all nodes of a regular graph. How does the memory size of the agent (the number of states of the automaton) inf...
Almost conventional search engines employ centralized architecture. However, such an engine is not suitable for fresh information retrieval because it spends a long time to collec...
In business, the retrieval of up-to-date, or fresh, information is very important. It is difficult for conventional search engines based on a centralized architecture to retrieve ...