This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
Abstract. This paper surveys the state-of-the-art in developing multi-agent systems, and sets out to answer the questions: "what are the key current issues in developing multi...
Rafael H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Michael Winikoff
—Large-scale agent-based systems are required to self-optimize towards multiple, potentially conflicting, policies of varying spatial and temporal scope. As a result, not all ag...
— The continuous growth of information sources on the web, together with the corresponding volume of dailyupdated contents, makes the problem of finding news and articles a chal...
Andrea Addis, Giuliano Armano, Francesco Mascia, E...
: This paper is dedicated to the issue of structural performance of multi-agent platforms. Due to the wide range of all available architectures, we have concentrated only on Java R...