— Current Web servers use various API sets to access backend services. This model does not support service differentiation, overload control, caching of contents generated by bac...
Negotiation between two trading agents is a two-stage process. First, the agents exchange offers whilst acquiring and exchanging information. Second, they attempt to reach a mutual...
E-government in South Africa has a particularly important historical and social context due to the legacy of apartheid. As a result, a ten year egovernment implementation horizon h...
Smart disks, a type of processor-embedded active I/O devices, with their on-disk memory and network interface controller, can be viewed as processing elements with attached storage...
The multi-agent resource allocation problem is the negotiation of a set of resources among a population of agents, in order to maximize a social welfare function. The purpose of th...
Antoine Nongaillard, Philippe Mathieu, Brigitte Ja...