In this paper we investigate extensions of the well-known Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanisms to problems whose objective function is not utilitarian and whose agents’ utiliti...
Giovanna Melideo, Paolo Penna, Guido Proietti, Rog...
As the mobility and the number of affordable, powerful, and highly portable devices becoming networked increases, so will the amount of networked services offered, managed and disc...
Bilhanan Silverajan, Jaakko Kalliosalo, Jarmo Harj...
Scalable coordination is a key challenge in deployment of multiagent systems. Resource usage is one part of agent behavior which naturally lends itself to abstraction. CyberOrgs i...
This paper argues that the agent-based simulation approach is just the one appropriate to the social sciences (including economics). Although there were many predecessor approache...
— The dangerous and time sensitive nature of a disaster area makes it an ideal application for robotic exploration. Our long term goal is to enable humans, software agents, and a...