Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) provide the basis of distributed application frameworks where software components are provided as modular and reusable services. Until today ...
Diffusion processes taking place in social networks are used to model a number of phenomena, such as the spread of human or computer viruses, and the adoption of products in `vira...
Social norms enable coordination in multiagent systems by constraining agent behaviour in order to achieve a social objective. Automating the design of social norms has been shown...
George Christelis, Michael Rovatsos, Ronald P. A. ...
We consider collusion in multi-unit auctions where the allocation and payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show how collusion can increase the utility of the collud...
In many applications, tasks can be delegated to intelligent agents. In order to carry out a task, an agent should reason about what types of resources the task requires. However, ...
Murat Sensoy, Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Timothy ...