This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
In this paper we propose electronic contract negotiation — a sub-part of the more general area of electronic commerce — as an example application for mobile agents. We start b...
We quantify the effect of Bayesian ignorance by comparing the social cost obtained in a Bayesian game by agents with local views to the expected social cost of agents having glob...
Noga Alon, Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman, Moshe Tenne...
In the context of artificial intelligence, the multiagent systems are an alternative solution to address complex problems and distributed. PAINALLI is an multi-agent architecture f...
A Grid information system should rely upon two basic features: the replication and dissemination of information about Grid services and resources, and the distribution of such info...
Agostino Forestiero, Carlo Mastroianni, Giandomeni...