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MAGS
2010
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Task allocation learning in a multiagent environment: Application to the RoboCupRescue simulation
Coordinating agents in a complex environment is a hard problem, but it can become even harder when certain characteristics of the tasks, like the required number of agents, are un...
Sébastien Paquet, Brahim Chaib-draa, Patric...
MAGS
2010
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Sequential auctions for common value objects with budget constrained bidders
This paper analyzes sequential auctions for budget constrained bidders, for multiple heterogeneous common value objects. In most auctions, bidders not only have valuations for obj...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....
MAGS
2010
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Designing bidding strategies in sequential auctions for risk averse agents
Designing efficient bidding strategies for sequential auctions remains an important, open problem area in agent-mediated electronic markets. In existing literature, a variety of bi...
Valentin Robu, Han La Poutré
MAGS
2010
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On the convergence of autonomous agent communities
Community is a common phenomenon in natural ecosystems, human societies as well as artificial multi-agent systems such as those in web and Internet based applications. In many sel...
Hong Zhu, Fang Wang, Shufeng Wang
MAGS
2010
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Comparing goal-oriented and procedural service orchestration
Goals form a declarative description of the desired end result of (part of) an orchestration. A goal-oriented orchestration language is an orchestration language in which these goa...
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Martin Wirsing
MAGS
2010
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Towards reliable multi-agent systems: An adaptive replication mechanism
Abstract. Distributed cooperative applications (e.g., e-commerce) are now increasingly being designed as a set of autonomous entities, named agents, which interact and coordinate (...
Zahia Guessoum, Jean-Pierre Briot, Nora Faci, Oliv...
MAGS
2010
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Special Issue: Agents, Web Services and Ontologies: Integrated Methodologies
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Viviana Mascard...