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ICMAS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed Quiescence Detection in Multiagent Negotiation
In a distributed multiagent negotiation involving multiple issues, it is often desirable to finalize dealsonly whenall related issues are resolved. Wepresent a quiescence detectio...
Michael P. Wellman, William E. Walsh
ICMAS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
A Multiagent Variant of Dyna-Q
This paper describes a multiagent variant of Dyna-Q called M-Dyna-Q. Dyna-Q is an integrated single-agent framework for planning, reacting, and learning. Like DynaQ, M-Dyna-Q empl...
Gerhard Weiß
ICMAS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Surplus Equivalence of Leveled Commitment Contracts
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts--i.e., contracts where each party ca...
Tuomas Sandholm, Yunhong Zhou
ICMAS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Safe Exchange Planner
Safe exchange is a key issue in multiagent systems, especially in electronic transactions where nondelivery is a major problem. In this paper we present a unified framework for mo...
Tuomas Sandholm, Vincent Ferrandon
ICMAS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed Case-Based Learning
Multi-agent systems exploiting case based reasoning techniques have to deal with the problem of retrieving episodes that are themselves distributed across a set of agents. From a ...
M. V. Nagendra Prasad
ICMAS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Benevolent Agents in Multiagent Systems
This paper describes an analysis of benevolent agents in multiagent systems (MAS). We first present a definition and motivation for benevolence that is appropriate for MAS. We the...
Abdulla M. Mohamed, Michael N. Huhns
ICMAS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
The Adaptive Agent Architecture: Achieving Fault-Tolerance Using Persistent Broker Teams
Brokers are used in many multi-agent systems for locating agents, for routing and sharing information, for managing the system, and for legal purposes, as independent third partie...
Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque
ICMAS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Self-Organizing Manufacturing Control: An Industrial Application of Agent Technology
We present an auction-based approach to manufacturing control. Workpieces auction off their current task, while machines bid for tasks. When awarding a machine, a workpiece takes ...
Stefan Bussmann, Klaus Schild