Internet computing technologies, like grid computing, enable a weak computational device connected to such a grid to be less limited by its inadequate local computational, storage,...
Cellular automata can be used to design high-performance natural solvers on parallel computers. This paper describes the development of applications using CARPET, a high-level prog...
Requirements Driven Agent Collaboration (RDAC) is a mechanism where the self-interested service agents actively and autonomously search for the required services submitted by the ...
Coalition formation is a key problem in automated negotiation among self-interested agents, and other multiagent applications. A coalition of agents can sometimes accomplish thing...
Abstract The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of al...