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DFKI
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Multiagent Systems Without Agents - Mirror-Holons for the Compilation and Enactment of Communication Structures
It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß
ICAC
2005
IEEE
16 years 16 days ago
Towards Autonomic Virtual Applications in the In-VIGO System
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
Jing Xu, Sumalatha Adabala, José A. B. Fort...
ICDCSW
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
On the Modeling of Honest Players in Reputation Systems
Reputation mechanisms are a key technique to trust assessment in large-scale decentralized systems. The effectiveness of reputation-based trust management fundamentally relies on ...
Qing Zhang, Ting Yu
GECCO
2007
Springer
142views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
16 years 1 months ago
Simulations of egoistic and altruistic behaviors using the vidya multiagent system platform
This paper investigates the impacts of individual egoistic and altruistic behaviors in a virtual society built upon the Vidya game, used here as the social simulation and Multiage...
Marcelo Souza Pita, Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto
PERCOM
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Middleware Support for Quality of Context in Pervasive Context-Aware Systems
Middleware support for pervasive context-aware systems relieves context-aware applications from dealing with the complexity of context-specific operations such as context acquisit...
Kamran Sheikh, Maarten Wegdam, Marten van Sinderen