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2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Transition-independent decentralized markov decision processes
There has been substantial progress with formal models for sequential decision making by individual agents using the Markov decision process (MDP). However, similar treatment of m...
Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor R. Lesse...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Role-assignment in open agent societies
Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems...
Mehdi Dastani, Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On optimal outcomes of negotiations over resources
We analyse scenarios in which self-interested agents negotiate with each other in order to agree on deals to exchange resources. We consider two variants of the framework, one whe...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Robust software via agent-based redundancy
This paper describes how multiagent systems can be used to achieve robust software, one of the major goals of software engineering. The paper first positions itself within the sof...
Michael N. Huhns, Vance T. Holderfield, Rosa Laura...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Towards interest-based negotiation
Negotiation is essential in settings where agents have conflicting interests and a desire to cooperate. In many approaches, agents are assumed to have pre-set, fixed preferences...
Iyad Rahwan, Liz Sonenberg, Frank Dignum