Policies are a means of influencing management behaviour within a distributed system, without coding the behaviour into the managers. Authorisation policies specify what activitie...
—The topic of policy-based management is introduced. Its specific application by the ACCENT project to call control is then discussed. The APPEL policy language supports regular ...
Multiagent Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes are a popular model of multiagent systems with uncertainty. Since the computational cost for finding an optimal joint pol...