— Game theory models and analyzes the situations of conflict and cooperation among independent decision-makers. We can view the runs of a multi-agent system as a game where the ...
A number of recent developments in software engineering -- from agile methods to aspect-oriented programming to design patterns to good enough software -- share a number of common...
Merging and integrating different conceptual models which have been developed by domain experts and analysts with dissimilar perspectives on the same issue has been the subject of...
The majority of existing work on agent dialogues considers negotiation, persuasion or deliberation dialogues. We focus on inquiry dialogues that allow two agents to share knowledg...
Auctions have become popular in conducting trade negotiations on the Internet. The design of new auction formats and other negotiation protocols has become an important topic for r...