A strength of commitment protocols is that they enable agents to act flexibly, thereby enabling them to accommodate varying local policies and respond to exceptions. A consequent ...
Intelligent agents are typically situated in a social environment and must reason about social cause and effect. Such reasoning is qualitatively different from physical causal rea...
Auction mechanism design is a subfield of game theory dedicated to manipulating the rules of an auction so as to achieve specific goals. The complexity of the dynamics of auctions...
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sk...
We present a logic for reasoning both about the ability of agents to cooperate to execute complex actions, and how this relates to their ability to reach certain states of affairs...
Luigi Sauro, Jelle Gerbrandy, Wiebe van der Hoek, ...
We investigate trust-based relationships in electronic supply chains where trust is a measure of consistency in meeting negotiated contract deadlines. We consider scenarios where ...