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Coalition formation (CF) creates a coherent group between autonomous agents to efficiently achieve individual or collective goals. However, the idle agents are not able to maximize their utility. In this paper, the weighted voting mechanism (WVM) has been proposed that allows agents to join existing coalitions. The experiments endorsed agents' number and the trust element as parameters to study the...
Continuous growth of hanging pages with Web makes a significant problem for ranking in the information retrieval. Exclusion of these pages in ranking calculation can give biased/inconsistent result. On the other hand inclusion of these pages will reduce the speed significantly. However most of the IR ranking algorithms exclude the hanging pages. But there are relevant and important hanging pages on...
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