A meritocratic trust-based group formation in an IoT environment for smart cities

TL;DR: A detailed literature survey of the field of IARS and how it can be used for developing smart city services is presented in this article , where case studies, synergies, advances, and a reference implementation architecture for IARS for smart cities are discussed.

TL;DR: A formal multiagent framework for coordinating a class of collaborative industrial practices called “Industrial Symbiotic Networks (ISNs)” as cooperative games is presented and regulations and normative socio-economic policies are considered as coordination instruments that in combination with ISN games resolve the situation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend earlier work by its authors on formal aspects of the processes of contracting a theory to eliminate a proposition and revising it to introduce a new proposition.

TL;DR: It is shown that BP can only converge to a fixed point that is also a stationary point of the Bethe approximation to the free energy, which enables connections to be made with variational approaches to approximate inference.

TL;DR: A framework called the contract net is presented that specifies communication and control in a distributed problem solver, and comparisons with planner, conniver, hearsay-ii, and pup 6 are used to demonstrate that negotiation is a natural extension to the transfer of control mechanisms used in earlier problem-solving systems.

TL;DR: This thesis presents an approximation technique that can perform Bayesian inference faster and more accurately than previously possible, and is found to be convincingly better than rival approximation techniques: Monte Carlo, Laplace's method, and variational Bayes.