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Creating agent platforms to host agent-mediated services that share resources
After a period where the Internet was exclusively filled with content,
the present
efforts are moving towards services, which handle the raw information to
create
value from it. Therefore labors to create a wide collection of
agent-based services
are being perfomed in several projects, such as Agentcities does.
In this work we present an architecture for agent platforms named
a-Buildings. The
aim of the proposed architecture is to ease the creation, installation,
search and
management of agent-mediated services and the share of resources among
services.
To do so the a-Buildings architecture creates a new level of abstraction
on top of
the standard FIPA agent platform specification.
Basically, an a-Building is a service-oriented platform which offers a
set of
low level services to the agents it hosts. We define low level services
as those
required services that are neccesary to create more complex high level
composed
services.Postprint (published version
Variations on Kaluza-Klein Cosmology
We investigate the cosmological consequences of having quantum fields living
in a space with compactified dimensions. We will show that the equation of
state is not modified by topological effects and so the dynamics of the
universe remains as it is in the infinite volume limit. On the contrary the
thermal history of the universe depends on terms that are associated with
having non-trivial topology. In the conclusions we discuss some issues about
the relationship between the non-critical string-inspired cosmology and
the result obtained with matter given by a hot massless field in S^{1}\times
\mbox{\bf
R}.Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures in a uuencoded file (using uufiles), LaTeX,
FTUAM-93/13 (LaTeX errors corrected
Gravitational Lorentz Violations from M-Theory
In an attempt to bridge the gap between M-theory and braneworld
phenomenology, we present various gravitational Lorentz-violating braneworlds
which arise from p-brane systems. Lorentz invariance is still preserved locally
on the braneworld. For certain p-brane intersections, the massless graviton is
quasi-localized. This also results from an M5-brane in a C-field. In the case
of a p-brane perturbed from extremality, the quasi-localized graviton is
massive. For a braneworld arising from global AdS_5, gravitons travel faster
when further in the bulk, thereby apparently traversing distances faster than
light.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX, references added, minor corrections and
addition
Exponential Convergence Towards Stationary States for the 1D Porous Medium Equation with Fractional Pressure
We analyse the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the one dimensional
fractional version of the porous medium equation introduced by Caffarelli and
V\'azquez, where the pressure is obtained as a Riesz potential associated to
the density. We take advantage of the displacement convexity of the Riesz
potential in one dimension to show a functional inequality involving the
entropy, entropy dissipation, and the Euclidean transport distance. An argument
by approximation shows that this functional inequality is enough to deduce the
exponential convergence of solutions in self-similar variables to the unique
steady states
Examples of signature (2,2) manifolds with commuting curvature operators
We exhibit Walker manifolds of signature (2,2) with various commutativity
properties for the Ricci operator, the skew-symmetric curvature operator, and
the Jacobi operator. If the Walker metric is a Riemannian extension of an
underlying affine structure A, these properties are related to the Ricci tensor
of A
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