New communication technologies are changing the way travellers gossip and trade advice while on the road. This paper presents initial results from our studies of backpacker cultur...
We present a new approach to representing coalitional games based on rules that describe the marginal contributions of the agents. This representation scheme captures characterist...
Collaborative learning is question-driven and open-ended by nature. Many of the techniques developed for intelligent tutoring are applicable only in more structured settings, but f...
This paper presents the key features of a new negotiation model for autonomous agents. The model is generic, handles multi-party and multi-issue negotiation, acknowledges the role...
Fernando Lopes, Augusto Q. Novais, Nuno J. Mamede,...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures exhibit attractive properties for a wide range of real world systems. As a result they are increasingly being applied in the design of ap...
Steven Willmott, Josep M. Pujol, Ulises Cort&eacut...