Predicting tradeoffs in contract-based distributed scheduling
Predicting tradeoffs in contract-based distributed scheduling
Advantages of a Leveled Commitment Contracting Protocol
Advantages of a Leveled Commitment Contracting Protocol
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Coalition formation among bounded rational agents
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Equilibrium analysis of the possibilities of unenforced exchange in multiagent systems
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Query restart strategies for Web agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Market-based resource control for mobile agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Leveled commitment contracts with myopic and strategic agents
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
eMediator: a next generation electronic commerce server
AAAI '99/IAAI '99 Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Agent negotiation in trusted third party mediated uncertain games
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
eMediator: a next generation electronic commerce server
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Sardine: dynamic seller strategies in an auction marketplace
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Direct execution of team specifications in STAPLE
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
The eager bidder problem: a fundamental problem of DAI and selected solutions
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Learning and decision: making for intention reconciliation
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Multi-linked negotiation in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
A perspective on symbolic mathematical computing and artificial intelligence
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems: A Survey from a Machine Learning Perspective
Autonomous Robots
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Unenforced E-Commerce Transactions
IEEE Internet Computing
Electronic Institutions as a Framework for Agents' Negotiation and Mutual Commitment
EPIA '01 Proceedings of the10th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence on Progress in Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Extraction, Multi-agent Systems, Logic Programming and Constraint Solving
Cognition, Sociability, and Constraints
Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems, From RoboCup to Real-World Applications (selected papers from the ECAI 2000 Workshop and additional contributions)
Making Rational Decisions in N-by-N Negotiation Games with a Trusted Third Party
PRIMA '99 Proceedings of the Second Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents: Approaches to Intelligent Agents
Agent Negotiation under Uncertainty and Risk
PRIMA '00 Proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents: Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents
Antisocial Agents and Vickrey Auctions
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
Bid Evaluation and Selection in the MAGNET Automated Contracting System
AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
Strategic design of mobile agents
AI Magazine
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
An Extended Multi-Agent Negotiation Protocol
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Further extensions of FIPA Contract Net Protocol: threshold plus DoA
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Agent technology in communications systems: an overview
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Auction in dynamic environments: incorporating the cost caused by re-allocation
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Formal aspects of electronic commerce: research issues and challenges
International Journal of Electronic Commerce - Special issue: Systems for computer-mediated digital commerce
Issues in computational Vickrey auctions
International Journal of Electronic Commerce - Special issue: Intelligent agents for electronic commerce
An anonymous and failure resilient fair-exchange e-commerce protocol
Decision Support Systems
Coalition Formation: From Software Agents to Robots
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
A generalised model of e-trading for gradual secret release fair exchange protocol
International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
Dialogue games that agents play within a society
Artificial Intelligence
Selling ad campaigns: online algorithms with cancellations
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Algorithms for optimizing leveled commitment contracts
IJCAI'99 Proceedings of the 16th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence - Volume 1
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
A comparison of agent decommitment techniques in a real-time environment
AIKED'10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and data bases
ArgMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Modelling flexible social commitments and their enforcement
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
A hybrid system based on multi-agent systems in case of e-weddingthailand
ADMI'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agents and Data Mining Interaction
A Practical Approach of Fairness in E-Procurement
International Journal of Information Security and Privacy
Effective acceptance conditions in real-time automated negotiation
Decision Support Systems
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In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Such contracts do not allow agents to efficiently accommodate future events. Game theory has proposed contingency contracts to solve this problem. Among computational agents, contingency contracts are often impractical due to large numbers of interdependent and unanticipated future events to be conditioned on, and because some events are not mutually observable. This paper proposes a leveled commitment contracting protocol that allows self-interested agents to efficiently accommodate future events by having the possibility of unilaterally decommitting from a contract based on local reasoning. A decommitment penalty is assigned to both agents in a contract: to be freed from the contract, an agent only pays this penalty to the other party. It is shown through formal analysis of several contracting settings that this leveled commitment feature in a contracting protocol increases Pareto efficiency of deals and can make contracts individually rational when no full commitment contract can. This advantage holds even if the agents decommit manipulatively.