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2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluating Dynamic Services in Bioinformatics
Abstract. In dynamic applications characterised by a variety of alternative services with the same functionality but heterogeneous results, agents requesting services must find an ...
Maíra Ribeiro Rodrigues, Michael Luck
CIA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Specifying Protocols for Knowledge Transfer and Action Restriction in Multiagent Systems
In this paper we present the MAPa language for expressing knowledge transfer and action restriction between agents in multiagent systems. Our approach is founded on the definition ...
María Adela Grando, Christopher D. Walton
CIA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Simple Argumentation Based Contract Enforcement Mechanism
Abstract. Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we provide an argumentati...
Nir Oren, Alun D. Preece, Timothy J. Norman
CIA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Learning to Negotiate Optimally in Non-stationary Environments
Abstract. We adopt the Markov chain framework to model bilateral negotiations among agents in dynamic environments and use Bayesian learning to enable them to learn an optimal stra...
Vidya Narayanan, Nicholas R. Jennings
CIA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Iterative Query-Based Approach to Efficient Task Decomposition and Resource Allocation
Intelligent coordination in complex multi-agent environments requires sophisticated mechanisms for suboptimal task decomposition and efficient resource allocation provided by the t...
Michal Pechoucek, Ondrej Lerch, Jirí B&iacu...