A collective of agents often needs to maximize a “world utility” function which rates the performance of an entire system, while subject to communication restrictions among th...
There are two ways of handling bilateral multi-issue negotiations – one is to negotiate all the issues together, and the other is to negotiate them one by one. The order in whic...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....
This paper focuses on a task allocation problem, particularly in cases where the task is to find a solution to a search problem or a constraint satisfaction problem. If the searc...
To achieve security in wireless sensor networks, it is important to be able to encrypt and authenticate messages sent among sensor nodes. Keys for encryption and authentication pu...
Wenliang Du, Jing Deng, Yunghsiang S. Han, Pramod ...
Network based intruders seldom attack directly from their own hosts, but rather stage their attacks through intermediate “stepping stones” to conceal their identity and origin...