We present a general method for agents using ontologies as part of their knowledge representation to teach each other concepts to improve their communication and thus cooperation ...
Qualitative Coalitional Games (QCGs) are a version of coalitional games in which an agent's desires are represented as goals which are either satisfied or unsatisfied, and ea...
Factored representations, model-based learning, and hierarchies are well-studied techniques for improving the learning efficiency of reinforcement-learning algorithms in large-sca...
Carlos Diuk, Alexander L. Strehl, Michael L. Littm...
A major challenge in efficiently solving distributed resource allocation problems is to cope with the dynamic state changes that characterise such systems. An effective solution t...
Partha Sarathi Dutta, Nicholas R. Jennings, Luc Mo...
An agent's trust decision strategy consists of the agent's policies for making trust-related decisions, such as who to trust, how trustworthy to be, what reputations to ...