We consider the model of population protocols introduced by Angluin et al. [2], in which anonymous finite-state agents stably compute a predicate of their inputs via twoway inter...
The CASA architecture describes a platform for the provisioning of services by agents by supporting three levels of agent design. At the base level is a framework to build an agen...
Automated negotiation and coalition formation among self-interested agents are playing an increasingly important role in electronic commerce. Such agents cannot be coordinated by ...
This paper introduces and solves a security problem of pervasive computing: how to define authorizations for offline interactions when trust relationships among entities do not ex...
The Grid community is actively working on defining, deploying and standardizing protocols, mechanisms, and infrastructure to support decentralized, seamless, and secure interacti...