Abstract This paper contributes to the design of intelligent buildings. A MultiAgents Home Automation System (MAHAS) is proposed which controls appliances and energy sources in bui...
of modelling abstractions to map from items in the real-world to objects in the computational domain is oth for the effective implementation of abstract problem solutions and for ...
Mariusz Nowostawski, Geoff Bush, Martin K. Purvis,...
We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variet...
Erik S. Steinmetz, John Collins, Scott Jamison, Ra...
Negotiation surrounds our day-to-day lives. Research in the field of automated negotiations has suggested the design and use of automated negotiators, on one hand to allow facilit...
We build on recent work on argumentation frameworks for generating desires and plans. We provide a rich instantiDung's abstract argumentation framework for (i) generating con...