We control a population of interacting software agents. The agents have a strategy, and receive a payoff for executing that strategy. Unsuccessful agents become extinct. We investi...
Software agents that play a role in E-commerce and E-government applications involving the Internet often contain information about the identity of their human user such as credit ...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Anja Oskamp, Corien Prins, ...
The use of software agents for automatic contract negotiation in e-commerce and e-trading ents has been the subject of considerable recent interest. A widely studied abstract mode...
Paul E. Dunne, Michael Wooldridge, Michael Laurenc...
This paper presents an approach to automated negotiation between agents which attempts to combine the advantages of a co-operative value adding approach, with the reality that neg...
Abstract: Adaptive behavior and learning are required of software agents in many application domains. At the same time agents are often supposed to be resource-bounded systems, whi...
: This paper investigates the feasibility of employing the Software Agent technology in the highly dynamic and variable context of healthcare emergency coordination and decision-su...
Francesco De Mola, Giacomo Cabri, Nicola Muratori,...
This manuscript presents a design for the emergent generation of short-term forecasts in multi-agent coordination and control systems. Food foraging behavior in ant colonies const...
Paul Valckenaers, Karuna Hadeli, Bart Saint Germai...
Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, ...
Responsive environments are physical surroundings whose components change their behaviour to accommodate the presence of people as well as other components. We describe a means to...
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...