In this paper a theory of delegation is presented. There are at least three reasons for developing such a theory. First, one of the most relevant notions of "agent" is b...
We present a simple model of distributed multi-agent multi-issued contract negotiation for open systems where interactions are competitive and information is private and not shared...
Peyman Faratin, Mark Klein, Hiroki Sayama, Yaneer ...
The importance of the efforts towards integrating the symbolic and connectionist paradigms of artificial intelligence has been widely recognised. Integration may lead to more e...
Researchers have been emphasizing the strong role that multi-agent systems can play progressively towards the design and implementation of complex autonomic systems. The aim of th...
We present new algorithms for local planning over Markov decision processes. The base-level algorithm possesses several interesting features for control of computation, based on s...