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MAGS
2008
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Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
MAGS
2008
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Consensus ontologies in socially interacting MultiAgent systems
This paper presents approaches for building, managing, and evaluating consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent h...
Ergun Biçici
MAGS
2008
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ACVisualizer: A visualization tool for APi-calculus
Process calculi are mathematical tools used for modeling and analyzing the structure and behavior of reactive systems. One such calculus, called APi-calculus (an extension to Pi-ca...
Raheel Ahmad, Shahram Rahimi
MAGS
2008
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Integrating embodied conversational agent components with a generic framework
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer generated life-like characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. To achieve natural multi-modal conve...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Aleksandra Cerekovic, Kateryna T...
MAGS
2008
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Automated formal analysis of human multi-issue negotiation processes
This paper reports on experiments in (human) multi-issue negotiation and their analysis, and presents a generic software environment supporting such an analysis. First, the paper p...
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Lourens van der ...
MAGS
2008
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A decentralized model for automated multi-attribute negotiations with incomplete information and general utility functions
This paper presents a decentralized model that allows self-interested agents to reach "win-win" agreements in a multi-attribute negotiation. The model is based on an alt...
Guoming Lai, Katia P. Sycara, Cuihong Li
MAGS
2008
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A multi-issue negotiation protocol among agents with nonlinear utility functions
Multi-Issue Negotiation protocols have been studied very widely and represent a promising field since most of negotiation problems in the realworld are complex ones including mult...
Takayuki Ito, Mark Klein, Hiromitsu Hattori
MAGS
2008
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Agent-Grid Integration Language
The GRID and MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) communities believe in the potential of GRID and MAS to enhance each other as these models have developed significant complementarities. Thu...
Clement Jonquet, Pascal Dugenie, Stefano A. Cerri