Social influences play an important part in the actions that an individual agent may perform within a multi-agent society. However, the incomplete knowledge and the diverse and co...
Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings, Iya...
Argumentation-based negotiation (ABN) provides agents with an effective means to resolve conflicts within a multi-agent society. However, to engage in such argumentative encounter...
Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings, Iya...
Negotiation is essential in settings where agents have conflicting interests and a desire to cooperate. In many approaches, agents are assumed to have pre-set, fixed preferences...
Conflicts exist in multi-agent systems. Agents have different interests and desires. Agents also hold different beliefs and may make different assumptions. To resolve conflicts, ag...
This paper presents a framework for specifying Web services communities. A Web service is an accessible application that humans, software agents, and other applications in general ...