Abstract. Reputation systems help peers decide whom to trust before undertaking a transaction. Conventional approaches to reputation-based trust modeling assume that peers reputed ...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
Distributed Multi-Agent Systems (DMAS) such as supply chains functioning in highly dynamic environments need to achieve maximum overall utility during operation. The utility from ...
Nathan Gnanasambandam, Seokcheon Lee, Soundar R. T...
Building conversation protocols has traditionally been an art more than a science, as their construction is often guided by designers’ intuition rather than by a principled appro...
In the area of monitoring communication networks, GEDSystem is a tool for supporting the development of programs driven to the management of domains that may show up when networks ...
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...