Many real-time systems must control their CPU utilizations in order to meet end-to-end deadlines and prevent overload. Utilization control is particularly challenging in distribut...
Xiaorui Wang, Dong Jia, Chenyang Lu, Xenofon D. Ko...
In this paper, we initiate the study of the approximability of the facility location problem in a distributed setting. In particular, we explore a trade-off between the amount of...
Agents need to be able to change their beliefs; in particular, they should be able to contract or remove a certain belief in order to restore consistency to their set of beliefs, a...
Techniques that support effective communication during teamwork processes are of particular importance. Psychological study shows that an effective team often can anticipate infor...
Yu Zhang, Richard A. Volz, Thomas R. Ioerger, John...
A number of agent-oriented programming systems are based on a framework of beliefs, desires and intentions (BDI) and more explicitly on the BDI logic of Rao and Georgeff. In this ...