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AAAI
2006
15 years 8 months ago
Contract Enactment in Virtual Organizations: A Commitment-Based Approach
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
Yathiraj B. Udupi, Munindar P. Singh
AAAI
1993
15 years 8 months ago
The Semantics of Event Prevention
In planning tasks an agent may often find himself in a situation demanding that he choose an action that would prevent some unwanted event from occurring. Similarly, in tasks invo...
Charles L. Ortiz Jr.
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Bootstrapping trust evaluations through stereotypes
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...
Chris Burnett, Timothy J. Norman, Katia P. Sycara
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Agreeing on plans through iterated disputes
Autonomous agents transcend their individual capabilities by cooperating towards achieving shared goals. The different viewpoints agents have on the environment cause disagreement...
Alexandros Belesiotis, Michael Rovatsos, Iyad Rahw...
AAMAS
2007
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Modeling conversation policies using permissions and obligations
We describe our preliminary work in modeling conversation specifications and policies as positive/negative permissions and obligations. Our model is generic as it is independent o...
Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin