Abstract. A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's properties. These properties will depend on various system...
Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Nenad...
In many Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), agents (even if selfinterested) need to cooperate in order to maximize their own utilities. Most of the multi-agent learning algorithms focus on...
Jose Enrique Munoz de Cote, Alessandro Lazaric, Ma...
In multi-agent planning environments, action models for each agent must be given as input. However, creating such action models by hand is difficult and time-consuming, because i...
The interesting properties of P2P systems (high availability despite peer volatility, support for heterogeneous architectures, high scalability, etc.) make them attractive for dist...
To address the need for highly configurable and customizable distributed systems, researchers and practitioners are investigating various innovative approaches. One of the promisi...