The goal of this paper is to model an agent who dislikes large choice sets because of the “cost of thinking” involved in choosing from them. We take as a primitive a preferenc...
Matchmaking arises when supply and demand meet in an electronic marketplace, or when agents search for a web service to perform some task, or even when recruiting agencies match c...
Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M....
Coalition formation is a key topic in multi–agent systems (mas). Coalitions enable agents to achieve goals that they may not have been able to achieve independently, and encoura...
Ad hoc and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing paradigms pose a number of security challenges. The deployment of classic security protocols to provide services such as node authentication...
Esther Palomar, Almudena Alcaide, Juan M. Est&eacu...
Current network management architectures are using different models to define management information objects. These definitions actually also include, in a non-formal way, the defi...