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ICMAS
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Leveled Commitment Contracting among Myopic Individually Rational Agents
In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...
Martin Andersson, Tuomas Sandholm
ICMAS
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Implementation Issues on Market-Based QoS Control
In this paper, we discuss two major tradeoffs, spatial and temporal tradeoffs, that appear when applying marketbased computing to multimedia network applications. The former appea...
Hirofumi Yamaki, Yutaka Yamauchi, Toru Ishida
ICMAS
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Towards Multi-Swarm Problem Solving in Networks
This paper describes how multiple interacting swarms of adaptive mobile agents can be used to solve problems in networks. The paper introduces a new architectural description for ...
Tony White, Bernard Pagurek
ICMAS
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Heterogeneity, Stability, and Efficiency in Distributed Systems
This paper explores the increasing the heterogeneity of an agent population to stabilize decentralized systems by adding bias terms to each agent's expected payoffs. Two appr...
James D. Thomas, Katia P. Sycara
ICMAS
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Poaching and Distraction in Asynchronous Agent Activities
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
Mike H. Chia, Daniel E. Neiman, Victor R. Lesser