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ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A negotiation model for autonomous agents: key features and comparison with existing models
This paper presents the key features of a new negotiation model for autonomous agents. The model is generic, handles multi-party and multi-issue negotiation, acknowledges the role...
Fernando Lopes, Augusto Q. Novais, Nuno J. Mamede,...
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Integrating Communicative Action, Conversations and Decision Theory to Coordinate Agents
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Mihai Barbuceanu, Mark S. Fox
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Online mechanism design for electric vehicle charging
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are expected to place a considerable strain on local electricity distribution networks, requiring charging to be coordinated in order to accommoda...
Enrico H. Gerding, Valentin Robu, Sebastian Stein,...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Distributed Patient Scheduling in Hospitals
Patient scheduling in hospitals is a highly complex task. Hospitals have a distributed organisational structure; being divided into several autonomous wards and ancillary units. M...
Torsten O. Paulussen, Nicholas R. Jennings, Keith ...
E4MAS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
Exploiting the Environment for Coordinating Agent Intentions
One large and quite interesting family of MAS applications is characterized (1) by their large scale in terms of number of agents and physical distribution, (2) by their very dynam...
Tom Holvoet, Paul Valckenaers