Angelic nondeterminism can play an important role in program development. It simplifies specifications, for example in deriving programs with a refinement calculus; it is the form...
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
The network and distributed systems research communities have an increasing need for “replayable” research, but our current experimentation resources fall short of reaching th...
The paper elaborates upon the interim results achieved in resolving a few newly discovered 16th century letters now alleged to be written by Queen Mary of Scots (QMS). Despite the...
Many important problems in multiagent systems involve the allocation of multiple resources among the agents. If agents are self-interested, they will lie about their valuations fo...