In Service-Oriented MAS middle-agents provide different kinds of matchmaking functionalities. If no adequate services are available for a specific request, a planning functionalit...
hibition: Extended Abstract Social insects, such as ants and termites, collectively build large and complex structures, with many individuals following simple rules and no centrali...
Crystal Schuil, Matthew Valente, Justin Werfel, Ra...
We introduce the notion of fault tolerant mechanism design, which extends the standard game theoretic framework of mechanism design to allow for uncertainty about execution. Speci...
Ryan Porter, Amir Ronen, Yoav Shoham, Moshe Tennen...
In this paper we examine how copyright protection of digital items can be securely managed in a 3G mobile phone and other devices. First, the basic concepts, strategies, and requi...
In this paper, the problem of deriving sensible information from a collection of argumentation systems coming from different agents is addressed. The underlying argumentation the...