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ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Formalization of a voting protocol for virtual organizations
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
PERVASIVE
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Collaborative Sensing in a Retail Store Using Synchronous Distributed Jam Signalling
The retail store environment is a challenging application area for Pervasive Computing technologies. It has demanding base conditions due to the number and complexity of the interd...
Albert Krohn, Tobias Zimmer, Michael Beigl, Christ...
PODS
2010
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Semantic query optimization in the presence of types
Both semantic and type-based query optimization rely on the idea that queries often exhibit non-trivial rewritings if the state space of the database is restricted. Despite their ...
Michael Meier 0002, Michael Schmidt, Fang Wei, Geo...
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Agreeing on plans through iterated disputes
Autonomous agents transcend their individual capabilities by cooperating towards achieving shared goals. The different viewpoints agents have on the environment cause disagreement...
Alexandros Belesiotis, Michael Rovatsos, Iyad Rahw...
ICSM
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Software Change Through Design Maintenance
Conventional software engineering tends to focus on a small part of the software life cycle: the design and implementation of a product. The bulk of the lifetime cost is in the ma...
Ira D. Baxter, Christopher Pidgeon