We study the problem of agents attempting to find quality service providers in a distributed environment. While referrals from other agents can be used to locate high-quality prov...
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
Bidding for multiple items or bundles on online auctions raises challenging problems. We assume that an agent has a valuation function that returns its valuation for an arbitrary ...
This paper describes a camera-based observation system for football games that is used for the automatic analysis of football games and reasoning about multi-agent activity. The o...
Michael Beetz, Nico von Hoyningen-Huene, Jan Bando...
Natural, technological and man-made disasters are typically followed by chaos that results from an inadequate overall response. Three separate levels of coordination are addressed ...
Myriam Abramson, William Chao, Joseph Macker, Ranj...
Abstract. In this paper an agent-based segmentation approach is presented and discussed. The approach consists in the utilization of autonomous agents for the segmentation of a ran...
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel method to characterize the performance of autonomous agents in the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC-SCM). We create ...
Brett Borghetti, Eric Sodomka, Maria L. Gini, John...
Abstract. Online reputation mechanisms need honest feedback to function effectively. Self interested agents report the truth only when explicit rewards offset the cost of reporting...
Sequential and simultaneous auctions are two important mechanisms for buying/selling multiple objects. These two mechanisms yield different outcomes (i.e., different revenues and a...