In this paper, we propose a middleware library for efficiently developing distributed cooperative applications consisting of a large number of cellular phones with Java executors....
In this paper, we investigate the use of hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) to speed up the acquisition of cooperative multi-agent tasks. We introduce a hierarchical multi-a...
Rajbala Makar, Sridhar Mahadevan, Mohammad Ghavamz...
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...
The increasing ubiquity of mobile computing devices has made mobile ad hoc networks an everyday occurrence. Applications in these networks are commonly structured as a logical netw...
—Proxies provide important rendezvous service in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), but it comes at a cost to privacy. A SIP proxy is privy to all of the signaling exchanged ...