In 1984, Peter Patel-Schneider published a paper [1] entitled Small can be Beautiful in Knowledge Representation in which he advocated for limiting the expressive power of knowledg...
Systems of argumentation or ’computational dialectic’ are emerging as a powerful means of structuring inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. Individual systems of co...
Negotiation can be conceived as the exchange of messages among self-interested agents in order to settle on an agreement over a given issue. They decide which messages to send acco...
The paper reports on the formal framework to design strategies for multi-issue non-symmetric meaning negotiations among software agents in a distributed information retrieval syste...
Internet facilitates easy access to data, information, and knowledge sources available online. This provides an unprecedented opportunity to empower decision support systems with ...