When rational but myopic agents negotiate over the exchange of indivisible resources, any restriction to the negotiation protocol may prevent the system from converging to a socia...
A peer-to-peer(P2P) system comprises a network of nodes that are capable of sharing and exchanging resources with one another. Recent studies of P2P networks show that many resour...
Cooperation among autonomous agents involves an inherent degree of uncertainty. Agents determine for themselves when to initiate cooperation or to assist others, when to rescind c...
We describe OWL-P (OWL for Processes and Protocols), a methodology and software tool for specifying and enacting interaction protocols among autonomous agents. We use the Web Onto...
Ashok U. Mallya, Nirmit Desai, Amit K. Chopra, Mun...
In the design of resource bounded agents, high-level cognitive activities, such as reasoning, raise important problems related both to the adaptive ability and to the computationa...