ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
We study the complexity of a multilateral negotiation framework where autonomous agents agree on a sequence of deals to exchange sets of discrete resources in order to both furthe...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Partially observable decentralized decision making in robot teams is fundamentally different from decision making in fully observable problems. Team members cannot simply apply si...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
We highlight the limitations of formal methods by exhibiting two results in recursive function theory: that there is no effective means of finding a program that satisfies a given...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically focused o...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
The ‘engineering’ and ‘adaptive’ approaches to system production are distinguished. It is argued that producing reliable self-organised software systems (SOSS) will necessa...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
We define trust-based mechanism design as an augmentation of traditional mechanism design in which agents take into account the degree of trust that they have in their counterpar...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
In multi-agent MDPs, it is generally necessary to consider the joint state space of all agents, making the size of the problem and the solution exponential in the number of agents...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
As of today no solely software-based solution that a priori protects the computation of any mobile code and/or mobile agent was presented. Furthermore, Algesheimer et al. [1], arg...