System performance in multi-agent resource allocation systems can often improve if individual agents reduce their activity. Agents in such systems need a way to modulate their ind...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...
Abstract This paper contributes to the design of intelligent buildings. A MultiAgents Home Automation System (MAHAS) is proposed which controls appliances and energy sources in bui...
Abstract. If we are to enable agents to handle increasingly greater levels of complexity, it is necessary to equip them with mechanisms that support greater degrees of autonomy. Th...
—In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), service brokers could find many service providers which offer same function with different quality of service (QoS). Under this condition...
Safe is a first-order eager functional language with facilities for programmer controlled destruction and copying of data structures. It provides also regions, i.e. disjoint parts...
Javier de Dios, Manuel Montenegro, Ricardo Pe&ntil...