Adaptive query processing has been the subject of a great deal of recent work, particularly in emerging data management environments such as data integration and data streams. We ...
Amol Deshpande, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Vijayshanka...
—An inherent problem to a cooperation incentive mechanism implemented into a dynamic system where peers may join or leave at any time is the whitewashing problem. Whitewashers ar...
Abstract. We present a declarative language, PP, for the specification of preferences between possible solutions (or trajectories) of a planning problem. This novel language allow...
Mobile agents have often been advocated as the solution to the problem of designing and implementing distributed applications in a dynamic environment. Mobile agents provide a ver...
Adaptive multiagent algorithms based upon the behaviour of social insects are powerful decentralised systems capable of solving complex problems. The intelligence of such a system ...