In this paper, we propose a model for representing and predicting distances in large-scale networks by matrix factorization. The model is useful for network distance sensitive app...
This paper explores a novel application of queuing theory to the corrective software maintenance problem to support quantitative balancing between resources and responsiveness. In...
Automated negotiation has attracted growing interest within fields such as e-business, multi-agent systems, and web services. Nevertheless, a majority of automated negotiation res...
While several research projects have been proposed to use software agents to deal with information overload, their results are not applicable in the existing Web infrastructure ma...
Abstract. In this paper, we show how the concepts of objects, components, features and agents are used today in the Agent Building Center (ABC) environment in order to marry the mo...