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ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A model of normative power
A power describes the ability of an agent to act in some way. While this notion of power is critical in the context of organisational dynamics, and has been studied by others in t...
Nir Oren, Michael Luck, Simon Miles
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Formal Foundation of Workflow Hyperpaths and a Graph Search Algorithm for Workflow Hyperpath Generation
While executing a process, many decisions are taken at its various decision points for selecting paths. There is a need for understanding and analyzing on various paths that emana...
Sinnakkrishnan Perumal, Ambuj Mahanti
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Integrating Communicative Action, Conversations and Decision Theory to Coordinate Agents
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Mihai Barbuceanu, Mark S. Fox
ICAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Towards Autonomic Virtual Applications in the In-VIGO System
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
Jing Xu, Sumalatha Adabala, José A. B. Fort...
MIDDLEWARE
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Adaptive query processing in mobile environment
These last years, the evolution of nomadic terminals and mobile networks has yield to the development of the ubiquitous computing. In this context, actual query evaluation and opt...
Hocine Grine, Thierry Delot, Sylvain Lecomte