Future agent mediated eCommerce will involve open systems of agents interoperating between different institutions, where different auction protocols may be in use. We argue that i...
Abstract. Combinatorial problems such as scheduling, resource allocation, and configuration have many attributes that can be subject of user preferences. Traditional optimization ...
It is well understood that using a software component methodology can simplify the development and maintenance of systems. Web services allow this vision to be extended allowing c...
Abstract. Evaluation criteria for conversational CBR (CCBR) systems are important to guide development and tuning of new methods, and to enable practitioners to make informed decis...
Multi Agent Based Simulation (MABS) has been used mostly in purely social contexts. However, compared to other approaches, e.g., traditional discrete event simulation, object-orien...