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...
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...
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...
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...
Kevin Bryson, Michael Luck, Mike Joy, David T. Jon...
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...
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...
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...
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...