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SAGT
2009
Springer
155views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Anarchy, Stability, and Utopia: Creating Better Matchings
We consider the loss in social welfare caused by individual rationality in matching scenarios. We give both theoretical and experimental results comparing stable matchings with soc...
Elliot Anshelevich, Sanmay Das, Yonatan Naamad
GECCO
2008
Springer
145views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 12 months ago
Towards incremental social learning in optimization and multiagent systems
Social learning is a mechanism that allows individuals to acquire knowledge from others without incurring the costs of acquiring it individually. Individuals that learn socially c...
Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, Thomas Stützle
IDT
2007
83views more  IDT 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Negotiating flexible agreements by combining distributive and integrative negotiation
This paper presents an approach to automated negotiation between agents which attempts to combine the advantages of a co-operative value adding approach, with the reality that neg...
Quoc Bao Vo, Lin Padgham, Lawrence Cavedon
ICCCI
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Designing Social Agents with Empathic Understanding
This paper addresses the design of an agent model for a social agent capable of understanding other agents in an empathic way. The model describes how the empathic agent deals with...
Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Interactions between market barriers and communication networks in marketing systems
We investigate a framework where agents search for satisfying products by using referrals from other agents. Our model of a mechanism for transmitting word-of-mouth and the result...
Ian N. Durbach, Jan H. Hofmeyr