We address long-term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents. We present a coalition formation mechanism designed at the agent level as a decision problem. Th...
Julita Vassileva, Silvia Breban, Michael C. Horsch
This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and applications...
Nicholas R. Jennings, Katia P. Sycara, Michael Woo...
As heterogeneous distributed systems, multi-agent systems present some challenging con guration management issues. There are the problems of knowing how to allocate agents to comp...
Joseph A. Giampapa, Octavio H. Juarez-Espinosa, Ka...
In this paper we present a model for coalition formation and payo distribution in general environments. We focus on a reduced complexity kernel-oriented coalition formation model,...
This paper reports on industrial deployment of multi-agent systems and agent technology. It provides an overview of several application domains and an in-depth presentation of four...