This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
We address long-term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents. We present a coalition formation mechanism designed at the agent level as a decision problem. Th...
Julita Vassileva, Silvia Breban, Michael C. Horsch
Future areas of application for mobile agents technology are open, distributed and decentralized networks, where Mobile Agents autonomously perform tasks on behalf of their princi...
Peer-to-peer networks are one of the trends in the field of internetworking. Mobile agent-based technology is a newly proposed technology that can be used in peer-to-peer network...
Mobile agent systems provide new perspectives for distributed e-commerce applications. Sea-of-Data (SoD) applications are those that need to process huge quantities of distributed...
Guillermo Navarro, Joan Borrell, Jose A. Ortega-Ru...