ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
Distributed allocation and multiagent coordination problems can be solved through combinatorial auctions (CAs). However, most of the existing winner determination algorithms (WDAs...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
A network of cooperating agents must be able to reach rough consensus on a set of topics for cooperation. With highly heterogeneous agents, however, incommensurable measures and i...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper investigates software agents testing, and in particular how to automate test generation. We propose a novel approach, which takes advantage of agent interaction ontolog...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
Computational grids offer users a simple access to tremendous computer resources for solving large scale computing problems. Traditional performance analysis of scheduling algorit...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
The implementation of software systems with large numbers of heterogeneous components calls for a powerful design methodology. Although several such methodologies have been propos...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
In most of the existing approaches to the design of multiagent systems, there is no clear way in which to relate organisational and normative structures to the model of the enviro...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
The design of deterministic and fair mechanisms for selection among a set of self-motivated agents based solely on these agents' input is a major challenge in multiagent syst...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
As increasing numbers of processors and agents pervade the human environment, societies comprising both humans and agents will emerge. Presently, it is unknown how a person might ...