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HICSS
2003
IEEE
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Modeling Growth of Cellular Services in India: A Systems Dynamics Approach
The cellular industry all over the world has been witnessing very high growth rates in subscriber base in recent years. For developing countries in particular, cellular services a...
Amitava Dutta, Varadharajan Sridhar
ICDCSW
2003
IEEE
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Scaling Server Selection Using a Multi-Broker Architecture
Server replication is a common approach to improving the scalability of a service on the Internet. For this approach, the task of finding an appropriate server from a set of repli...
Mohamed-Vall O. Mohamed-Salem, Gregor von Bochmann...
AGENTCL
2003
Springer
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Intra-role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report
We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unrelia...
Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Fran&cc...
AGENTCL
2003
Springer
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Conventional Signalling Acts and Conversation
This article aims to provide foundations for a new approach to Agent Communication Languages (ACLs). First, we present the theory of signalling acts. In contrast to current approa...
Andrew J. I. Jones, Xavier Parent
ATAL
2003
Springer
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Miscomputing ratio: social cost of selfish computing
Auctions are useful mechanism for allocating items (goods, tasks, resources, etc.) in multiagent systems. The bulk of auction theory assumes that the bidders’ valuations for ite...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm