Tags or observable features shared by a group of similar agents are effectively used in real and artificial societies to signal intentions and can be used to infer unobservable ...
Abstract. This paper describes PARMENIDES, a system which facilitates structured debate about government policy. 1 The PARMENIDES System The last two decades have seen a deliberati...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...
Stochastic game logic (SGL) is a new temporal logic that combines features of alternating temporal logic (to formalize the individual views and cooperation and reaction facilities...
— Distributed computing systems are increasingly being created as self-organizing collections of many autonomous (human or software) agents cooperating as peers. Peer-to-peer coo...
This paper presents some of the key techniques for reaching agreements in multi-agent environments. It discusses game-theory and economics based techniques: strategic negotiation, ...