In order for one agent to meet its goals, it will often need to influence another to act on its behalf, particularly in a society in which agents have heterogenous sets of abilitie...
Dionysis Kalofonos, Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicho...
Distributed cognition as an approach to collaborative work holds that a work unit is cognitive system in which cognitive activities are carried out jointly by workers with the use ...
Yan Xiao, Caterina Lasome, Jacqueline A. Moss, Col...
In this paper we present a flow control algorithm designed to improve the performance of ATM network and to gain higher throughput by guaranteeing negotiated cell loss ratio (CLR)...
Business Processes for Web Services (BPEL4WS) are the new paradigms for lightweight enterprise integration. They cross organizational boundaries and are provided by entities that s...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...