The need for negotiation in multi-agent systems stems from the requirement for agents to solve the problems posed by their interdependence upon one another. Negotiation provides a...
Simon Parsons, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings
This paper describes HERMES,a system that enhances group decision making by providing an argumentation frameworkto the agents involved. Thesystem organizes the existing knowledgei...
To be successful in open, multi-agent environments, autonomous agents must be capable of adapting their negotiation strategies and tactics to their prevailing circumstances. To th...
Weextendthe frameworkof simple temporalproblems studied originally by Dechter,MeiriandPearl to consider constraints of the formxl - yl < rl V... v xn yn <_rn, wherexl ... xn...
Mobile agents are processes which can migrate and execute on new hosts. Mobility is a key concept for network programming; it has stimulated much research about new programming la...
Lorenzo Bettini, Rocco De Nicola, Rosario Pugliese...