In this paper, we argue that allowing self-interested agents to activate social institutions during run-time can improve the robustness (i.e., stability, cooperation or fairness) ...
In this paper we present the design and implementation of an agent-mediated B2C e-Marketplace as part of the social and immersive 3D e-Tourism environment “Itchy Feet”. Custom...
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents operating in multi-agent environments. We use the...
of modelling abstractions to map from items in the real-world to objects in the computational domain is oth for the effective implementation of abstract problem solutions and for ...
Mariusz Nowostawski, Geoff Bush, Martin K. Purvis,...
Abstract. In this paper, we report on the design of a novel market-based approach for decentralised scheduling across multiple factories. Specifically, because of the limitations ...
Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Alex Rogers, Douglas K. M...