In this study, we investigate self-organizing social hierarchies in multi-agent systems. Agents occupy the nodes of a smallworld network and interact exclusively with other agents...
Abstract. Smart environments include context-aware computing to enhance system capabilities which affect user interaction positively. A context-aware application should collect con...
This paper is concerned with studying how the minimum power loss in a power system is related to its network topology. The existing algorithms in the literature all exploit nonline...
In this paper, a novel study on system profiles and adaptation of parameters for end-users of content-based indexingandretrieval(CBIR)applicationsarepresented.The main objective of...
Two important performance metrics in collaborative systems are local and remote response times. Previous analytical and simulation work has shown that these response times depend ...