Context aware middleware infrastructures have traditionally been implemented with a modular approach to allow different components to work cooperatively and supply context synthes...
Saad Liaquat Kiani, Maria Riaz, Yonil Zhung, Sungy...
In this paper, we propose a multi-agent approach for solving a class of optimization problems involving expensive resources, where monolithic local search schemes perform miserabl...
IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) called Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) provides two different access modes, namely, 2-way (basic access) and 4-way (RTS/CTS) hands...
This paper focuses on the problem of generating coalition structures for task allocation via coalition formation. It provides a unified formal framework for constructing those co...
We focus on data gathering problems in energy-constrained wireless sensor networks. We study store-and-gather problems where data are locally stored on the sensors before the data ...