The paper introduces an approach to using a meta-ontology framework for complex multi-agent systems design, and illustrates it in an application related to ecological-medical issues. The described shared ontology is pooled from private sub-ontologies, which represent a problem area ontology, an agent ontology, a task ontology, an ontology of interactions, and the multi-agent system architecture...

This note describes some cryptographic issues related to multi‐located parties. In general, multi‐located parties make it difficult for the eavesdropper to mount the man‐in‐the‐ middle attack. Conversely, they make it easier to address problems such as joint encryption and error correction coding. It is easier to implement the three‐stage quantum cryptography protocol.

Multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

This paper provides an algorithm to compute the subgame perfect equilibrium strategies in perfect information finitehorizon alternating-offers bargaining in-bundle over multiple issues. We show that the agreement is achieved immediately and is Pareto efficient. We make a novel use of backward induction for multiple issues and we prove that, for linear multi-attribute utility functions, the prob...

Quality of Service issues of IP networks are mostly related to guaranteeing bandwidth for flows. However, many interactive real-time applications also require this bandwidth in an uninterrupted fashion. This paper describes how multi-path routing and local failure reaction can be employed to provide uninterrupted QoS to applications. We show how multi-path route sets can be found in reasonably ...

This paper gives an overview of routing and staffing algorithms in multi-skill contact centers. Related issues and problems are characterized, and models and mathematical tools from the literature for modeling and optimizing contact centers are described. In addition, a general model of a multi-skill contact center is described and the papers from the literature are put in that framework. keywo...

Wireless sensor networks consisting of great number of cheap and tiny sensor nodes which are used for military environment controlling, natural events recording, traffic monitoring, robot navigation, and etc. Such a networks encounter with various types of challenges like energy consumption, routing, coverage, reliability. The most significant types of these problems are coverage that originate...