In this paper, we argue that allowing self-interested agents to activate social institutions during run-time can improve the robustness (i.e., stability, cooperation or fairness) ...
Over the last decade, institutions have demonstrated that they are a powerful mechanism to make agent interactions more effective, structured, coordinated and efficient. Different...
Many agent-based systems have been developed over the past decade; however, the security issues are usually not addressed adequately. In order to make the mobile agent paradigm mo...
Abstract. In the philosophy of behavior-based robotics, design of complex behavior needs the interaction of basic behaviors that are easily implemented. Action selection mechanism ...
We consider the problem of revenue-optimal dynamic mechanism design in settings where agents' types evolve over time as a function of their (both public and private) experien...