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ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
The Moving Target Function Problem in Multi-Agent Learning
We describe a framework that can be used to model and predict the behavior of MASs with learning agents. It uses a difference equation for calculating the progression of an agent&...
José M. Vidal, Edmund H. Durfee
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Agents in Electronic Commerce: Component Technologies for Automated Negotiation and Coalition Formation
Automated negotiation and coalition formation among self-interested agents are playing an increasingly important role in electronic commerce. Such agents cannot be coordinated by ...
Tuomas Sandholm
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
An Adaptive Choice of Messaging Protocol in Multi Agent Systems
abstract, form of this problem, we use a mathematical analysis to show that three different messaging protocols result in varying message loads, depending on certain parameters suc...
Chris Preist, Siani Pearson
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Emergent Properties of a Market-based Digital Library with Strategic Agents
The University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) is an open system that allows third-parties to build and integrate their own profit-seeking agents into the marketplace of inform...
Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee, William P. Birmingha...
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 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 5 months ago
Determining Successful Negotiation Strategies: An Evolutionary Approach
To be successful in open, multi-agent environments, autonomous agents must be capable of adapting their negotiation strategies and tactics to their prevailing circumstances. To th...
Noyda Matos, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
A New Approach to Class Formation in Multi-Agent Simulations of Language Evolution
Multi-agent models of language evolution usually involve agents giving names to internal independently constructed categories. We present an approach in which the creation of cate...
Frédéric Kaplan
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
After arguing about the crucial importance of trust for Agents and MAS, we provide a definition of trust both as a mental state and as a social attitude and relation. We present t...
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
How Much Should an Agent Know what Other Agents are Doing in a Cooperative Team?
Cooperation ina task oriented multi-agent team is important because a well designed cooperation strategy among a group of cooperating agents can lead to an increase of the group p...
Yiming Ye
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
How to Explore your Opponent's Strategy (almost) Optimally
This work presents a lookahead-based exploration strategy for a model-based learning agent that enables exploration of the opponent's behavior during interaction in a multi-a...
David Carmel, Shaul Markovitch