Abstract—In future massively distributed service-based computational systems, resources will span many locations, organisations and platforms. In such systems, the ability to all...
Communication is the key feature of Multi-agent Systems. The interactions among components of a system may take many distinct forms of increasing complexity such as in auctions, n...
This paper addresses the issue of emergence of robust cooperation among self-interested agents interacting in N-player social dilemma games. A series of graphs are created each ex...
Several agent-oriented methodologies have been proposed over the last few years. Unlike the object-oriented domain and unfortunately for designers, most of the time, each methodolo...
Carole Bernon, Massimo Cossentino, Marie Pierre Gl...
Patient scheduling in hospitals is a highly complex task. Hospitals have a distributed organisational structure; being divided into several autonomous wards and ancillary units. M...
Torsten O. Paulussen, Nicholas R. Jennings, Keith ...