We introduce the Consensual N-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma as a large-scale dilemma. We then present a framework for cooperative consensus formation in large-scale MAS under the N-P...
We describe a language providing concepts for modeling autonomous entities (agents) and cooperating entities (groups). Agents are the execution units of a GroupLog program. Each a...
All human co-operation is based on trust, meaning that we choose co-operation partners and make commitment decisions based on how much we trust the other party. Digital certificat...
Abstract. We present the data modeling concepts of Tricia, an opensource Java platform used to implement enterprise web information systems as well as social software solutions inc...
Engineeringdesign applications require the support of long transactions in cooperative environments, The problem of the existing copy/update/merge approaches is that thepartial ef...