Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
Abstract—This work considers the problem of reaching consensus in an unreliable linear consensus network. A solution to this problem is relevant for several tasks in multi-agent ...
Fabio Pasqualetti, Antonio Bicchi, Francesco Bullo
In the multilevel generalized assignment problem (MGAP) agents can perform tasks at more than one efficiency level. Important manufacturing problems, such as lot sizing, can be ea...
This paper presents a statistical learning approach to predicting people's bidding behavior in negotiation. Our study consists of multiple 2-player negotiation scenarios wher...
Expressive Description Logics (DLs) have been advocated as formalisms for modeling the domain of interest in various application areas. An important requirement is the ability to ...