This paper proposes the use of reliable group communication as a complement to traditional asynchronous messaging in multi-agent systems. In particular, the mechanism of message p...
: A reputation management system can promote trust in transactions in an online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) market. We model a C2C market by employing an agent-based approach. To di...
It is difficult to discover effective behavior for NPCs automatically. For instance, evolutionary methods can learn sophisticated behaviors based on a single objective, but realis...
This paper presents CBRetaliate, an agent that combines Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms. Unlike most previous work where RL is used to improve...
Bryan Auslander, Stephen Lee-Urban, Chad Hogg, H&e...
In this paper we describe PADUA, a protocol designed to enable agents to debate an issue drawing arguments not from a knowledge base of facts, rules and priorities but directly fro...
Maya Wardeh, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Frans Coene...