This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and applications...
Nicholas R. Jennings, Katia P. Sycara, Michael Woo...
Abstract--Recent works proposed the adoption of a natureinspired approach of chemistry for implementing service architectures suitable for pervasive applications [34]. In particula...
Elena Nardini, Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Andre...
We compare two approaches to Bayesian network inference, called variable elimination (VE) and arc reversal (AR). It is established that VE never requires more space than AR, and n...
Cory J. Butz, Junying Chen, Ken Konkel, Pawan Ling...
Intelligent security protocols can verify whether the involved principals have properties that are defined based on certain functional and security policies. The property we focu...
Reversible computing basically means computation with less or not at all electrical power. Since the standard binary gates are not usually reversible we use the Fredkin gate in ord...