—Commitments based on branching time logic are powerful representations for modeling multi-agent interactions. Current approaches into commitments have conceived these representa...
In recent years there has been a movement toward deployment of distributed approaches for electronic commerce. Intelligent software agents, for instance, may be instructed to act ...
Trust is a sine qua non for trade. According to transaction cost economics, a contract always offers some opportunity to defect. In the case of asymmetric product information, wher...
Gert Jan Hofstede, Catholijn M. Jonker, Tim Verwaa...
Abstract. In distributed resource allocation a set of agents must assign their resources to a set of tasks. This problem arises in many real-world domains such as distributed senso...
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe, W...
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...