Abstract-- Recent research on multi-agent systems has produced a plethora of decentralized controllers that implicitly assume various degrees of agent localization. However, many p...
Recent work in communications and business modeling emphasizes a commitment-based view of interaction. By abstracting away from implementation-level details, commitments can poten...
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
To prevent or alleviate conflicts in multi-agent environments, it is important to distinguish between situations where another agent has misbehaved intentionally and situations wh...
In a team competition, two participating teams have an equal number of players, and each team orders its players linearly based on their strengths. A mechanism then specifies how...