We propose a framework to compute the utility of an agreement w.r.t. a preference set in a negotiation process. In particular, we refer to preferences expressed as weighted formula...
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Francesco M. Doni...
Potentially, the advantages of marker-passing over local connectionist techniques for associa tive inference are (1) the ability to differen tiate variable bindings, and (2) r...
Coalition formation is an important form of interaction in multiagent systems. It enables the agents to satisfy tasks that they would otherwise be unable to perform, or would perf...
In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
In this paper we are interested in argument based reasoning for access control, for example in the context of agents negotiating access to resources or web services in virtual orga...
Guido Boella, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert W. N. van d...