Abstract The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of al...
The clear trend toward the integration of current and emerging applications and services in the Internet launches new demands on service deployment and management. Distributed serv...
Bayesian networks (BNs) are used to represent and ef ciently compute with multi-variate probability distributions in a wide range of disciplines. One of the main approaches to per...
Case-based planning can take advantage of former problem-solving experiences by storing in a plan library previously generated plans that can be reused to solve similar planning p...
In the arena of automated negotiations we focus on the principal negotiation protocol in bilateral settings, i.e. the alternatingoffers protocol. In the scientific community it is...