In e-marketplaces, customers specify job requests in realtime and agents form coalitions to service them. This paper proposes a protocol for self-interested agents to negotiate pr...
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel method to characterize the performance of autonomous agents in the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC-SCM). We create ...
Brett Borghetti, Eric Sodomka, Maria L. Gini, John...
Virtual storytelling often uses a fixed, pre-scripted storyline, constraining the characters’ autonomy and behaviour. An agent-based approach provides possibilities of a narrati...
In the last 10 years several approaches and technologies other than MAS (such as Web services and Grid computing) have emerged, with the support of the industry, providing their o...
In systems based on organisational specifications a reoccurring problem remains to be solved in the disparity between the level of abstractness of the organisational concepts and ...