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ICMAS
1998
13 years 7 months ago
Rights and Commitment in Multi-Agent Agreements
For agents to act in collaboration, they often require an agreement that describes how they are to act, to which they are committed. Typically, agreements are characterised as an ...
Timothy J. Norman, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenn...
ICMAS
1998
13 years 7 months ago
Interaction Protocols in Agentis
Agentis is a framework for building interactive multiagent applications which is based upon a model of agent interaction whose key elements are services and tasks. Central to the ...
Mark d'Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck
ICMAS
1998
13 years 7 months ago
Simulating Value Chain Coordination with Artificial Life Agents
The increasing use of information technology within and between companies yields changes in the predominant coordination mechanisms. On one hand it is argued that we witness an ov...
Torsten Eymann, Boris Padovan, Detlef Schoder
ICMAS
1998
13 years 7 months ago
An Agent Architecture for Dynamic Re-Design of Agents
This paper presents a generic architecture for an agent capable of designing and creating new agents. The design agent itself is based on an existing generic agent model, and inclu...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...
ICMAS
1998
13 years 7 months ago
A Market Protocol for Decentralized Task Allocation
We present a decentralized, asynchronous market protocol for allocating and scheduling tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources, constrained by a hierarchical task dep...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman