: This paper presents a method called "Situation Matching" that aids to improve cooperative tasks in heterogeneous multi-agent systems. The situation matching (SM) above ...
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...
The modularization of negotiating agents as proposed by the C-IPS approach provides a sound base for a concept that we call dynamic degrees of delegation. Agents following this co...
Agents are situated autonomous entities that perceive and act in their environment, and communicate with other agents. An agent usually starts a conversation by querying another a...
A multi-agent system is a network of software agents that cooperate to solve problems. In open multi-agent systems, the agents that need resources provided by other agents are not ...