In light of advances in processor and networking technology, especially the emergenceof networkattached disks,the traditional clientserver architecture of file systems has become...
Jiong Yang, Wei Wang 0010, Richard R. Muntz, Silvi...
paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision-making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through t...
Pietro Panzarasa, Nicholas R. Jennings, Timothy J....
In the Markov decision process (MDP) formalization of reinforcement learning, a single adaptive agent interacts with an environment defined by a probabilistic transition function....
Multi-agent research often borrows from biology, where remarkable examples of collective intelligence may be found. One interesting example is ant colonies’ use of pheromones as...
Optimization of performance in collective systems often requires altruism. The emergence and stabilization of altruistic behaviors are dicult to achieve because the agents incur ...