Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems that are composed of multiple autonomous agents. The aim of such interactions is to reach agreements through an itera...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
The Internet presents numerous sources of useful information--telephone directories, product catalogs, stock quotes, event listings, etc. Recently, many systems have been built th...
An event space is a set of instantaneous events that vary both in time and specificity. The concept of an event space provides a foundation for a logical--i.e., modular and open-a...
Z39.50 is a client/server protocol widely used in digital libraries and museums for searching and retrieving information spread over a number of heterogeneous sources. To overcome ...
Task execution in multi-agent environments may require cooperation among agents. Given a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consider situations where ...