The paper explores a very simple agent design method called Q-decomposition, wherein a complex agent is built from simpler subagents. Each subagent has its own reward function and...
Replication is widely used to improve fault tolerance in distributed and multi-agent systems. In this paper, we present a different point of view on replication in multi-agent syst...
Abstract. Load-Balancing is a significant problem in heterogeneous distributed systems. There exist many load balancing algorithms, however, most approaches are very problem speci...
Production of reliable and flexible distributed applications is a growing area of interest and research. Various middleware technologies are often used as the communication infras...
Abstract. This paper is part of a long term research program on multiagent systems (MASs), based on the proposition that the interactions among the members of a large and heterogen...
Wenxuan Zhang, Constantin Serban, Naftaly H. Minsk...