Collective rationality in its ordinary sense is rationality’s extension to groups. It does not entail efficiency by definition. Showing that it entails efficiency requires a nor...
Agent theories and agent programs are two very different styles of specification of agent behavior. The former are declarative in nature, while the latter have an imperative fl...
Research on resource-bounded agents has established that rational agents need to be able to revise their commitments in the light of new opportunities. In the context of collabora...