Certain observable features (tags), shared by a group of similar agents, can be used to signal intentions and can be effectively used to infer unobservable properties. Such infere...
The capacity scaling property specifies the changes in network throughput when network size increases and serves as an essential performance evaluation metric for large-scale wir...
A typical storage hierarchy comprises of components with varying performance and cost characteristics, providing multiple options for data placement. We propose and evaluate a hie...
Agent description and discovery (ADD) is a critical infrastructure for open multi-agent services. As multi-agent systems grow larger and more diverse, it becomes harder to locate ...
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...