Robust Agent Communities

We believe that intelligent information agents will represent their users interest in electronic marketplaces and other forums to trade, exchange, share, identify, and locate goods and services. Such information worlds will present unforeseen opportunities as well as challenges that can be best addressed by robust, self-sustaining agent communities. An agent community is a stable, adaptive group of self-interested agents that share common resources and must coordinate their efforts to effectively develop, utilize and nurture group resources and organization. More specifically, agents will need mechanisms to benefit from complementary expertise in the group, pool together resources to meet new demands and exploit transient opportunities, negotiate fair settlements, develop norms to facilitate coordination, exchange help and transfer knowledge between peers, secure the community against intruders, and learn to collaborate effectively. In this talk, I will summarize some of our resea...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AISADM
• Authors: Sandip Sen, Sabyasachi Saha, Stéphane Airiau, Teddy Candale, Dipyaman Banerjee, Doran Chakraborty, Partha Mukherjee, Anil Gürsel
• Keywords: Agent Communities, AISADM 2007, Data Mining, Intelligent Information Agents, Self-sustaining Agent Communities