New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically focused o...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carl Kesselma...
Work on agent development frameworks, toolkits and methodologies have recently reached to such a level that ordinary organizations can develop their own multi-agent platforms easi...
As the science of multi-agent systems matures, many developers are looking to deploy mission critical applications on distributed multi-agent systems (DMAS). Due to their distribu...
This paper presents protocols and strategies for coalition formation with incomplete information under time constraints. It focuses on strategies for coalition members to distribu...