Collaborative applications provide a group of users with the facility to communicate and share data in a coordinate way. In this paper we propose a pattern system to design the ba...
Abstract. In open scenarios, agents willing to cooperate must impact the communication barrier between them and their unknown partners. If agents are not relying on any agreement a...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Savino Sguera, Armando Stel...
We propose a method for coordinating local components that observe a distributed discrete-event system R and execute actions depending on the current state of R. Coordination is a...
A problem in Ubiquitous Computing environments is the coordination of a multitude of different devices. This paper presents the RAUM1 -system that provides the basis for communicat...
In this paper, we formulate agent's decision process under the framework of Markov decision processes, and in particular, the multi-agent extension to Markov decision process...