Replicating data objects onto servers across a system can alleviate access delays. The selection of data objects and servers requires solving a constraint optimization problem, wh...
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) provides a framework for coordinated decision making by a team of agents. Often, during the decision making, capacity constraints on age...
One of the challenging issues in a distributed time sensitive information rich environment is how to assist the decision makers to make decisions quickly and effectively. This pap...
Guruprasad Airy, Po-Chun Chen, Xiaocong Fan, John ...
The algorithm we present in this paper aims to optimally distribute and connect the community of loosely coupled middle agents ensuring communication accessibility in a dynamic, i...
The choice of the offer to propose at a given step in a negotiation dialogue is a strategic matter and depends broadly on the profile of the agent and its mental states. The aim ...