In most multiagent systems with communicating agents, the agents have the luxury of using reliable, multi-step negotiation protocols. They can do so primarily when communication i...
Peer-to-peer networks have gained a lot of attention over the last couple of years, mainly due to the popularity of the free multimedia file-sharing program Napster and a legal ba...
Natalia Stakhanova, Sergio Ferrero, Johnny S. Wong...
This paper describes an environment for supporting very large ontologies. The system can be used on single PCs, workstations, a cluster of workstations, and high-end parallel supe...
Kilian Stoffel, Merwyn G. Taylor, James A. Hendler
This paper advances new methods for ecosystemic approaches to evolutionary music and art. We explore the biological concept of the niche and its role in evolutionary dynamics, appl...
The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...