Abstract. We introduce the notion of coordination mechanisms to improve the performance in systems with independent selfish and noncolluding agents. The quality of a coordination ...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Akash Nan...
As the Internet, intranets and other wide-area open networks grow, novel techniques for building distributed systems, notably mobile agents, are attracting increasing attention. T...
Nobukazu Yoshioka, Shinichi Honiden, Anthony Finke...
Delegate MAS has been proposed and investigated as an integrated coordination technique for so-called self-organising coordination-and-control applications. Delegate MAS consist o...
Communication and coordination play an important role in achieving concurrency in the design of large complex artifacts. It is also widely accepted that design is constraint orien...
—Spatial computing systems are characterized by the extended physical environment in which they exist and function. Often this environment can be manipulated in various ways by t...