In a cooperative multi-agent system that is situated in an evolving environment, agents need to dynamically adjust their negotiation attitudes towards different agents in order to...
Parallel and distributed programming is conceptually harder to undertake and to understand than sequential programming, because a programmer often has to manage the coexistence an...
OCAMS is a practical engineering application of multi-agent systems technology, involving redesign of the tools and practices in a complex, distributed system. OCAMS is designed to...
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Chin Seah, C...
Adaptive parallel computations--computations that can adapt to changes in resource availability and requirement--can effectively use networked machines because they dynamically ex...
Arash Baratloo, Ayal Itzkovitz, Zvi M. Kedem, Yuan...
Abstract. We describe an approach to designing and implementing a distributed system as a family of related finite state machines, generated from a single abstract model. Various a...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Stuart J. Norcros...