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ECAI
2000
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Achieving Coordination through Combining Joint Planning and Joint Learning
There are two major approaches to activity coordination in multiagent systems. First, by endowing the agents with the capability to jointly plan, that is, to jointly generate hypot...
Gerhard Weiss
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 12 months ago
Undominated VCG redistribution mechanisms
Many important problems in multiagent systems can be seen as resource allocation problems. For such problems, the well-known Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism is efficient, in...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Searching for fair joint gains in agent-based negotiation
In multi-issue negotiations, autonomous agents can act cooperatively to benefit from mutually preferred agreements. However, empirical evidence suggests that they often fail to s...
Minyi Li, Quoc Bao Vo, Ryszard Kowalczyk
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Stigmergic reasoning over hierarchical task networks
Stigmergy is usually associated with semantically simple problems such as routing. It can be applied to more complex problems by encoding them in the environment through which sti...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Robert B...
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Dynamic task allocation within an open service-oriented MAS architecture
A MAS architecture consisting of service centers is proposed. Within each service center, a mediator coordinates service delivery by allocating individual tasks to corresponding t...
Ivan Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner, Youssef Ach...