CIA
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
In the near future, billions of entities will be connected to each other through the Internet. The current trend is that an increasingly number of entities, from smart personal dev...
CIA
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
This paper, which is expository in nature, investigates and illustrates the idea of using cybernetic system modeling techniques to model a multi-agent community. The cybernetic co...
CIA
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and serv...
CIA
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
Recent years have seen dramatic and sustained growth in the amount of genomic data being generated, including in late 1999 the first complete sequence of a human chromosome. The c...
CIA
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
The research reported in this paper has both a scientific and a commercial aim. The scientific interest is to explore the use of contexts in order to improve the quality of informa...
CIA
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
Effective development of nontrivial systems of collaborative information agents requires that an in-depth analysis is made resulting in (1) specification of requirements at differe...
CIA
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
Abstract. Trust is important wherever agents must interact. We consider the important case of interactions in electronic communities, where the agents assist and represent principa...
CIA
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
Abstract. Currently, many kinds of information agents for di erent purposes exist. However, agents from di erent systems are still unable to cooperate, even if they accurately foll...