When rational but myopic agents negotiate over the exchange of indivisible resources, any restriction to the negotiation protocol may prevent the system from converging to a socia...
Abstract. Alternating-offers is the most prominent negotiation protocol for automatic bilateral bargaining. Nevertheless, in most settings it is still not known how two fully ratio...
The concept of "agent" has been used to describe many different artefacts: software programs, mobile robots, or even human beings. In a system consisting of many agents, ...
- In concert with customer and marketing staffs, systems engineers often formulate and codify an initial overall software system solution to fulfill customer needs. Without a focus...
Suppose a number of hospitals in a geographic area want to learn how their own heart-surgery unit is doing compared with the others in terms of mortality rates, subsequent complic...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Marina Bykova, Jiangtao Li, Ke...