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ICMAS
1998
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Leveled Commitment Contracting among Myopic Individually Rational Agents
In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...
Martin Andersson, Tuomas Sandholm
ICMAS
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Poaching and Distraction in Asynchronous Agent Activities
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
Mike H. Chia, Daniel E. Neiman, Victor R. Lesser
FLAIRS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Actively Supporting Collaboration in Virtual Learning Environments
Collaboration between peers is an important aspect of the learning process and can considerably augment learning in studying complex domains. To ensure that peer collaboration occ...
Adrian Gordon, Lynne E. Hall
WOA
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Agents Ownership Setting by User Fingerprints
— Agent ownership is a difficult task that touches legal domain. Agent ownership implies that a specific person or organization (the owner) is responsible for the agent’s act...
Salvatore Vitabile, Giovanni Pilato, Vincenzo Cont...
WOA
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Using a Properties Based Naming System in Mobile Agents Environments for Pervasive Computing
— Mobile Agents model is widely accepted as a good solution to simplify the coordination in a complex and distributed environment. Pervasive computing, presents many issues regar...
Fabio Tarantino, Alessio Ravani, Mario Zambrini
WOA
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Implementation Level Issues in MAS Modeling
— The aim of this paper is to focus on the issues connected with the diagrammatic notations and tools, which should support developers when moving from the design phase towards t...
Massimo Cossentino, Agostino Poggi, Giovanni Rimas...
WOA
2003
13 years 11 months ago
FIPA Standardization Activities in the Software Engineering Area
Massimo Cossentino, Gabriel Hopmans, James Odell
WOA
2003
13 years 11 months ago
A Programming Environment for Global Activity-based Applications
Abstract— This paper focuses on large-scale distributed systems that can be modeled as workflows of activities sharing resources, knowledge, know-how and services. We propose a ...
Flavio Corradini, Leonardo Mariani, Emanuela Merel...
WOA
2003
13 years 11 months ago
A Design Tool to Develop Agent-Based Workflow Management Systems
— This paper describes a methodology to design a workflow management system where a set of intelligent software agents composes an interactive scenario. The Workflow Management C...
Marco Repetto, Massimo Paolucci 0002, Antonio Bocc...