We present a decentralized, asynchronous market protocol for allocating and scheduling tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources, constrained by a hierarchical task dep...
Information-based agency is founded on two observations: everything in an agent’s world model is uncertain, and everything that an agent communicates gives away valuable informa...
Multi-issue negotiation protocols represent a promising field since most negotiation problems in the real world involve multiple issues. Our work focuses on negotiation with inte...
Software agent-based negotiation is a major method to automate the interactions in electronic marketplaces and Internet enabled communities. The traditional approach is to let the...
This paper investigates whether replacing non-modular artificial neural network brains of visual agents with modular brains improves their ability to solve difficult tasks, specif...
Ehud Schlessinger, Peter J. Bentley, R. Beau Lotto