Argumentation is a promising approach used by autonomous agents for reasoning about inconsistent/incomplete/uncertain knowledge, based on the construction and the comparison of ar...
In Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) structured hierarchically as several criteria and alternatives, the priority of an alternative is obtained by using the pairwise comparisons ba...
This paper describes an agent-based electronic market system whose underlying communication and cooperation protocols establish an artificial environment with advanced features. U...
Message-logging protocols are an integral part of a popular technique for implementing processes that can recover from crash failures. All message-logging protocols require that, ...
With the rapid performance improvements in low-cost PCs, it becomes increasingly practical and cost-effective to implement large-scale video-on-demand (VoD) systems around parallel...