Abstract. Autonomous agents decide for themselves, on the basis of their beliefs, goals, etc., how to act in an environment. However, it is often the case that an agent is motivate...
This paper discusses the application of distributed constraint optimization to coordination in disaster management situations under sub-optimal network conditions. It presents an ...
Robert N. Lass, Joseph B. Kopena, Evan Sultanik, D...
Abstract. Group communication is a programming abstraction that allows a distributed group of processes to provide a reliable service in spite of the possibility of failures within...
This paper presents an argumentation-based approach to deliberation, the process by which two or more agents reach a consensus on a course of action. The kind of deliberation we a...
Abstract. This paper describes an architecture for modeling cooperating systems of communicating agents. The authors’ goal is not that of providing a framework to implement multi...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer, Douglas H. No...