Agents are situated autonomous entities that perceive and act in their environment, and communicate with other agents. An agent usually starts a conversation by querying another a...
Multi-agent simulations aim at representing the dynamics of complex systems as resulting from multiple interactions between autonomous entities including their own perception of lo...
Protocols represent the allowed interactions among communicating components. Protocols are essential in electronic commerce to constrain the behaviors of autonomous entities. Trad...
In this paper, we address issues related to sharing information in a distributed system consisting of autonomous entities, each of which holds a private database. Semi-honest beha...
Literature on information integration across databases tacitly assumes that the data in each database can be revealed to the other databases. However, there is an increasing need ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Ramakris...