The widespread use of computers and of the internet have brought about human information overload, particularly in the areas of internet searches and email management. This has ma...
Negotiation between two trading agents is a two-stage process. First, the agents exchange offers whilst acquiring and exchanging information. Second, they attempt to reach a mutual...
Organisations can be defined as a set of entities regulated by mechanisms of social order and created by more or less autonomous actors to achieve common goals. Multi-agent systems...
Abstract. Trust is important wherever agents must interact. We consider the important case of interactions in electronic communities, where the agents assist and represent principa...
A key lesson learned from economic and game theory research is that negotiation protocols have substantial, rippling effects on the overall nature of the system. online auctions a...