Abstract. Agents in a team must be in agreement. Once a disagreement occurs we should detect the disagreement and diagnose it. Unfortunately, current diagnosis techniques do not sc...
Abstract. This paper describes an architecture for modeling cooperating systems of communicating agents. The authors’ goal is not that of providing a framework to implement multi...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer, Douglas H. No...
The ability of communicating with a selected party anonymously is an important aspect of network security. Communicating anonymously means that no adversary can discern who is com...
This research investigates an evolutionary approach to engineering agent collectives that accomplish tasks cooperatively. In general, reproduction and selection form the two corner...
Agents can benefit from contracting some of their tasks that cannot be performedby themselves or that can be performed moreefficiently by other agents. Developing an agent's ...