Both, research and application development in the area of multi-agent systems currently undertakes rapid expansion. In order to use multi-agent technology in real applications, it ...
In this paper we investigate two related aspects of the formalization of open interaction systems: how to specify norms, and how to enforce them by means of sanctions. The problem...
Combinatorial auctions have been studied by the multiagent systems community for some time, since these auctions are an effective mechanism for resource allocation when agents are...
This paper presents the general design of an architecture, based on software agents and oriented to the semantic Web, for the development and deployment of urban, ubiquitous servi...
Luigi Ceccaroni, Victor Codina, Manel Palau, Marc ...
The Combinatorial Public Projects Problem s an abstraction of resource allocation problems in which agents have preferences over alternatives, and an outcome that is to be collect...