Continued research into distributed agent-based systems and evolving web based technologies are opening up tremendous possibilities for the deployment of large scale and highly ex...
We report on the use of reinforcement learning with Cobot, a software agent residing in the wellknown online community LambdaMOO. Our initial work on Cobot (Isbell et al.2000) pro...
Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Christian R. Shelton, Mich...
Multi-Issue Negotiation protocols have been studied very widely and represent a promising field since most of negotiation problems in the realworld are complex ones including mult...
In this paper we present and evaluate a general framework for the design of truthful auctions for matching agents in a dynamic, two-sided market. A single commodity, such as a res...
—With virtual machine technology, distributed services deployed in multiple cooperative virtual machines, such as multi-tier web services, may reside on one physical machine. Thi...