Combinatorial auctions have been studied by the multiagent systems community for some time, since these auctions are an effective mechanism for resource allocation when agents are...
In this paper we consider how a BDI agent might determine its best course of action. We draw on previous work which has presented a model of persuasion over action and we discuss ...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...
Requirements Driven Agent Collaboration (RDAC) is a mechanism where the self-interested service agents actively and autonomously search for the required services submitted by the ...
A growing body of literature in networked systems research relies on game theory and mechanism design to model and address the potential lack of cooperation between self-intereste...
Abstract. Infinite contexts and their corresponding lattices are of theoretical and practical interest since they may offer connections with and insights from other mathematical ...