—Commitments based on branching time logic are powerful representations for modeling multi-agent interactions. Current approaches into commitments have conceived these representa...
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
Co-ordination is the glue that binds the activities of autonomous problem-solving agents together into a functional whole. Co-ordination mechanisms for distributed problem-solving ...
Several operations of Web-based applications are optimized with respect to the set of resources that will receive the majority of requests in the near future, namely the hot set. U...
There were always two separated methods to make agent coordination: individual-local balance perspective and individualsociety balance perspective. The first method only considere...