Recent work has shown that the physical connectivity of the Internet exhibits small-world behavior. Characterizing such behavior is important not only for generating realistic Int...
When agents are acting together, they may need a simple mechanism to decide on joint actions. One possibility is to have the agents express their preferences in the form of a ballo...
This study investigates how consumers evaluate a product when they read conflicting online consumer reviews of evaluations from previous consumers. If consumers are rational, as i...
Abstract. We present a novel logic-based framework to automate multi-issue bilateral negotiation in e-commerce settings. The approach exploits logic as communication language among...
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciasc...
A well-established principle of language is that there is a preference for closely related words to be close together in the sentence. This can be expressed as a preference for de...