: Drawing on writings within the CSCW community and on recent social theory, this paper proposes that the adoption of speech act theory as a foundation for system design carries wi...
AI planning research is now maturing and nding practical application in the commercial, industrial, engineering and defence sectors. This has led to a rapid expansion in the last ...
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is a popular framework for cooperative multi-agent decision making. DCOP is NPhard, so an important line of work focuses on developing f...
Christopher Kiekintveld, Zhengyu Yin, Atul Kumar, ...
Social laws have proved to be a powerful and theoretically elegant framework for coordination in multi-agent systems. Most existing models of social laws assume that a designer is...
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