Formal analyses of social action for Distributed A.I. (DAI) have focussed, almost exclusively, on scenarios in which participating agents have a joint intention to act. While such ...
We present and analyze coalitional affinity games, a family of hedonic games that explicitly model the value that an agent receives from being associated with other agents. We pro...
d to submit first an abstract (to signal your interest and contribution) and then a full paper (for review) to the workshop. All accepted papers will be published as a volume from ...
This paper investigates the impacts of individual egoistic and altruistic behaviors in a virtual society built upon the Vidya game, used here as the social simulation and Multiage...
Several innovative software applications such as those required by ambient intelligence, the semantic grid, e-commerce and e-marketing, can be viewed as open societies of heteroge...