This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
The most important and interesting of the computing challenges we are facing are those that involve the problems and opportunities afforded by massive decentralization and disinte...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is a signaling protocol standardized by IETF, aiming to manage the multimedia transmission sessions among different parties. This paper illustrate...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...