Abstract- Seeding the population of an evolutionary algorithm with solutions from previous runs has proved to be useful when learning control strategies for agents operating in a c...
Mitchell A. Potter, R. Paul Wiegand, H. Joseph Blu...
In this work we present the basic concepts for a dynamic plug-in-based software architecture using concepts from the Petri netbased MAS framework Mulan. By transferring the concept...
Lawrence Cabac, Michael Duvigneau, Daniel Moldt, H...
We analyze a mechanism that provides strong incentives for the submission of truthful feedback in virtual communities where services are exchanged on a peer-to-peer basis. Lying pe...
We present a version of the CCP paradigm, which is both distributed and probabilistic. We consider networks with a fixed number of nodes, each of them possessing a local and indep...
The ‘engineering’ and ‘adaptive’ approaches to system production are distinguished. It is argued that producing reliable self-organised software systems (SOSS) will necessa...