Trust is arguably the most crucial aspect of agent acceptability. At its simplest level, it can be characterized in terms of judgments that people make concerning three factors: an...
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Hyuckchul Jung, Shriniwas Kul...
Coalition formation is a key problem in automated negotiation among self-interested agents, and other multiagent applications. A coalition of agents can sometimes accomplish thing...
The authors have developed a new approach to database interoperability using the sketch data model. That technique has now been used in a number of applications, but an important ...
Abstract. Using mobile agent systems, cooperative distributed applications that run over the Internet can be constructed flexibly. However, there are some problems: it is difficul...
The Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem (VCSP) is a generic optimization problem defined by a network of local cost functions defined over discrete variables. It has applicatio...
Martin C. Cooper, Simon de Givry, M. Sanchez, Thom...