Abstract. Suppose Alice and Bob are two entities (e.g. agents, organizations, etc.) that wish to negotiate a contract. A contract consists of several clauses, and each party has ce...
More than ¾ of large software projects suffer large cost and schedule overruns or fail outright. Deficits in project requirements cause more than half of these failures and overr...
Abstract. The paradigm of argumentation has been used in the literature to assign meaning to knowledge bases in general, and logic programs in particular. With this paradigm, rules...
Abstract. Many computer protection tools incorporate learning techniques that build mathematical models to capture the characteristics of system's activity and then check whet...
The community of multi-agent systems has been studying ways to improve the selection of partner agents for joint action. One of such approaches consists in estimating the trustwort...