Cooperative multiagent probabilistic inference can be applied in areas such as building surveillance and complex system diagnosis to reason about the states of the distributed unc...
The following distributed coalescence protocol was introduced by Dahlia Malkhi in 2006 motivated by applications in social networking. Initially there are n agents wishing to coal...
The sales of customisable products and services over the internet is a challenging task within the area of electronic commerce. In this chapter we will present a case study which s...
Liliana Ardissono, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Fr...
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
Idle desktops have been successfully used to run sequential and master-slave task parallel codes on a large scale in the context of volunteer computing. However, execution of messa...