In recent years, the peer-to-peer paradigm has gained momentum in several application areas: file-sharing and VoIP applications have been able to attract millions of end users, w...
This research investigates an evolutionary approach to engineering agent collectives that accomplish tasks cooperatively. In general, reproduction and selection form the two corner...
Evolutionary problem decomposition techniques divide a complex problem into simpler subproblems, evolve individuals to produce subcomponents that solve the subproblems, and then a...
Heather Goldsby, Sherri Goings, Jeff Clune, Charle...
In the RETSINA multi-agent system, each agent is provided with an internal planning component—the RETSINA planner. Each agent, using its internal planner, formulates detailed pla...
Massimo Paolucci, Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara, Di...
When spatial objects are replicated at several sites in the network, the updates of a long transaction in a specific site should be propagated to the other sites for maintaining th...