This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...
This article presents a model for designing negotiation agent with two distinguishing features: 1) a marketdriven strategy and 2) a set of relaxed decision rules. Market-driven ag...
We present a logic for reasoning about properties of agent programs under different agent execution strategies. Using the agent programming language SimpleAPL as an example, we sh...
Natasha Alechina, Brian Logan, Mehdi Dastani, John...
We describe a framework that can be used to model and predict the behavior of MASs with learning agents. It uses a difference equation for calculating the progression of an agent&...
Software agents are a major innovation in how people use information systems, and they have parallels with how Decision Support Systems (DSS) support human decision-making. A DSS ...