Abstract Multi-agent systems (MASs) is an area of distributed artificial intelligence that emphasizes the joint behaviors of agents with some degree of autonomy and the complexiti...
Pieter Jan't Hoen, Karl Tuyls, Liviu Panait, Sean ...
In many two-sided search applications, autonomous agents can enjoy the advantage of parallel search, powered by their ability to handle an enormous amount of information, in a shor...
According to the taxonomy for agent activity, proposed by V. Parunak, a collaboration is an interaction between agents of a multi-agent system (MAS) whereby the agents explicitly ...
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) based E-mail system is the most popular application in today’s Internet world, but there are many dark clouds at the edge of the sunshin...
Virtual Organizations (VOs) are becoming an increasingly important research topic in the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). The problem of selecting suitable counterparts to inte...