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AMET
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Bid Evaluation and Selection in the MAGNET Automated Contracting System
We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variet...
Erik S. Steinmetz, John Collins, Scott Jamison, Ra...
EUROGP
1998
Springer
113views Optimization» more  EUROGP 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Fitness Causes Bloat: Mutation
The problem of evolving, using mutation, an artificial ant to follow the Santa Fe trail is used to study the well known genetic programming feature of growth in solution length. Kn...
William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli
CCGRID
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Efficient Grid Task-Bundle Allocation Using Bargaining Based Self-Adaptive Auction
To address coordination and complexity issues, we formulate a grid task allocation problem as a bargaining based self-adaptive auction and propose the BarSAA grid task-bundle alloc...
Han Zhao, Xiaolin Li
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
A principled study of the design tradeoffs for autonomous trading agents
In this paper we present a methodology for deciding the bidding strategy of agents participating in a significant number of simultaneous auctions, when finding an analytical sol...
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Bart Selman
IJCAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Distributed Patient Scheduling in Hospitals
Patient scheduling in hospitals is a highly complex task. Hospitals have a distributed organisational structure; being divided into several autonomous wards and ancillary units. M...
Torsten O. Paulussen, Nicholas R. Jennings, Keith ...