We study information elicitation mechanisms in which a principal agent attempts to elicit the private information of other agents using a carefully selected payment scheme based o...
In the last few years, there has been increasing interest from the agent community in the use of techniques from decision theory and game theory. Our aims in this article are first...
We present the architecture and the interface of a metadata registry for a large e-learning site. The metadata registry is very simple to integrate by content and application prov...
We present a multi-agent coordination technique to maintain throughput of a large-scale agent network system in the face of failures of agents. Failures do not just deteriorate th...
This paper presents the ARTS (Agent-oriented Robust Transactional System) model, which applies transaction concepts to provide agent developers with high-level support for agent s...