This paper extends earlier work in the use of ‘Agent-based Computational Economics’ (ACE) for modelling the development of co-operation between firms. Inter-firm relations hav...
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are very popular optimization tool, although efficient applications of GAs requires users have problem with setting their parameters and used genetic ope...
The increasing use of information technology within and between companies yields changes in the predominant coordination mechanisms. On one hand it is argued that we witness an ov...
Abstract--Collaborating agents require either prior agreement on the shared vocabularies that they use for communication, or some means of translating between their private ontolog...
Heather S. Packer, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. J...
Optimization of performance in collective systems often requires altruism. The emergence and stabilization of altruistic behaviors are dicult to achieve because the agents incur ...