ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
Distributed allocation mechanisms rely on the agents' autonomous (and supposedly rational) behaviour: states evolve as a result of agents contracting deals and exchanging res...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
Establishing and maintaining cooperation is an enduring problem in multi-agent systems and, although several solutions exist, the increased use of online trading systems, peerto-p...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
We consider Coalitional Skill Games (CSGs), a simple model of cooperation among agents. This is a restricted form of coalitional games, where each agent has a set of skills that a...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
Faced with the ongoing evolution of software agents from mere passive tools to e-tailers acting autonomously for their human owners (principals), new legal challenges appear on th...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
A database view is a dynamic virtual table composed of the result set of a query, often executed over different underlying databases. The view maintenance problem concerns how a v...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
Coalition formation is an important capability for automated negotiation among self-interested agents. In order for coalitions to be stable, a key question that must be answered i...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
An agent-based tool for micro-level simulation of transport chains (TAPAS) is described. It is more powerful than traditional approaches as it is able to capture the interactions ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Springer
In the literature on agent systems, the proactive behavior of agents is often modeled in terms of goals that the agents pursue. We review a number of commonly-used existing goal t...