The field of multi-agent system (MAS) is an active area of research within artificial
intelligence, with an increasingly important impact in industrial and other real-world …

Intelligent agents is a research area of the Artificial Intelligence intensely studied since the
1980s. Multi-agent systems represent a powerful paradigm of analyzing, projecting, and …

Demand-side management (DSM) in the smart grid allows customers to make autonomous
decisions on their energy consumption, hel** energy providers to reduce the peaks in …

As multi-core computing is now standard, it seems irresponsible for constraints researchers
to ignore the implications of it. Researchers need to address a number of issues to exploit …

We identify several challenges and opportunities opened to agent and multiagent systems,
following the recent developments in the domain of Earth observation constellations. We …

In many cases several entities, such as commercial companies, need to work together
towards the achievement of joint goals, while hiding certain private information. To …

Distributed constraint optimization problems enable the representation of many
combinatorial problems that are distributed by nature. An important motivation for such …

In recent years, several studies proposed privacy-preserving algorithms for solving
Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs). Those studies were based on …

Complete search algorithms for solving Distributed constraint optimization problems
(DCOPs) can be divided into two groups: algorithms that use a pseudo tree and algorithms …

People's safety is threatened by the repetition of critical events. Many people lose their lives
due to unprofessional rescue operation as well as time pressure of the rescue operation. A …