We present a theory of a modeler's problem decomposition skills in the context of optimal reasonzng -- the use of qualitative modeling to strategically guide numerical explor...
This article presents an overview of the Essex Wizards 2001 team participated in the RoboCup 2001 simulator league. Four major issues have been addressed, namely a generalized appr...
Huosheng Hu, Kostas Kostiadis, Matthew Hunter, Nik...
The basic idea behind a negotiation is that the agents make offers that they judge “good” and respond to the offers made to them until a compromise is reached. The choice of th...
Multi-item, multi-unit negotiations in industrial procurement pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of providering agents’ offers. Typic...
Many strategic actions carry a ‘contagious’ component beyond the immediate locale of the effort itself. Viral marketing and peacekeeping operations have both been observed to ...