It is difficult to reach optimal outcomes in bilateral negotiations with multiple issues when the agents' preferences and priorities of the issues are not common knowledge. S...
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault...
Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael P. Georgeff,...
Policy-based messaging (PBM) aims at carrying security policies with messages, which will be enforced at recipient systems to provide security features. PBM promotes a distributed...
Conventional network management is based on SNMP and often run in a centralized manner. Although the centralized management approach gives network administrators a flexibility of ...
In pervasive computing, devices or peers may implement or compose services using services from other devices or peers, and may use components from various sources. A composition t...