Negotiation is an important mechanism of coordination in multiagent systems. Contrary to early conceptualizations of negotiating agents, we believe that decisions regarding the neg...
This paper presents a communication-less multi-agent task allocation procedure that allows agents to use past experience to make non-greedy decisions about task assignments. Exper...
Complexity theory is a useful tool to study computational issues surrounding the elicitation of preferences, as well as the strategic manipulation of elections aggregating togethe...
This paper describes a Rule Based Service Level Agreement language called RBSLA which is based on RuleML. With this language SLAs can be implemented in a machine readable syntax w...
In this paper, we present PRICES, an efficient algorithm for mining association rules, which first identifies all large itemsets and then generates association rules. Our approach ...