Cooperation among autonomous agents involves an inherent degree of uncertainty. Agents determine for themselves when to initiate cooperation or to assist others, when to rescind c...
Use of tags to limit partner selection for playing has been shown to produce stable cooperation in agent populations playing the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. There is, however, a lac...
Negotiation is an important mechanism of coordination in multiagent systems. Contrary to early conceptualizations of negotiating agents, we believe that decisions regarding the neg...
Abstract. As the scale and scope of multi-agent systems grow, it becomes increasingly important to design and manage the manner in which the participants interact. The potential fo...
This paper describes user modelling in I-Help, a system to facilitate communication amongst learners. There are two I-Help components: Private and Public Discussions. In the Privat...
Susan Bull, Jim E. Greer, Gordon I. McCalla, Lori ...