In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
To ensure that a trust negotiation succeeds whenever possible, authorization policy compliance checkers must be able to find all minimal sets of their owners' credentials tha...
As computerized agents are becoming more and more common, e-commerce becomes a major candidate for incorporation of automated agents. Thus, it is vital to understand how people de...
This paper addresses an ongoing experience in the design of an artificial agent taking decisions in a role playing game populated by human agents and by artificial agents. At fi...