Abstract. Design patterns already proved successful in lowering the development time and number of errors of object-oriented software; now, they are, candidate to play a similar ro...
Massimo Cossentino, Luca Sabatucci, Antonio Chella
For a multiagent system (MAS), coordination is the assumption that agents are able to adapt their behavior according to those of the other agents. The principle of Property Based C...
In situations where self-interested agents interact repeatedly, it is important that they are endowed with negotiation techniques that enable them to reach agreements that are pro...
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Carles Sierra, Lluis Godo, ...
We present a new polynomial-space algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization problems (DCOP). The algorithm, called NCBB, is branch and bound search with modificati...
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in the field of multi-agent systems. Central to this endeavour is the problem of partitioning the set of agents into exh...