Humans throughout history have always sought to mimic the appearance, mobility, functionality, intelligent operation, and thinking process of biological creatures. This field of b...
This paper presents a new ascending-price multi-unit auction protocol. As far as the authors are aware, this is the first protocol that has an open format, and in which sincere b...
There are two ways of handling bilateral multi-issue negotiations – one is to negotiate all the issues together, and the other is to negotiate them one by one. The order in whic...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....
Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...