Agents can benefit from contracting some of their tasks that cannot be performedby themselves or that can be performed moreefficiently by other agents. Developing an agent's ...
names in the same abstract already indicates a relation between them. Because of its simplicity, we can apply this approach to large amounts of text and establish interaction netwo...
Information extraction (IE) systems are costly to build because they require development texts, parsing tools, and specialized dictionaries for each application domain and each na...
The difficulty of maintaining very large software systems is becoming more widely acknowledged. One of the primary problems is the need to access information about a complex and e...
Premkumar T. Devanbu, Peter G. Selfridge, Bruce W....
In this paper we examine the problem of balancing load in a large-scale distributed system when information about server loads may be stale. It is well known that sending each req...