KQML as an agent communication language
Software agents
Concurrency and knowledge-level communication in agent languages
Artificial Intelligence
Exception handling in agent systems
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Towards a fault-tolerant multi-agent system architecture
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
JADE: a FIPA2000 compliant agent development environment
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Auction System Design Using Open Multithreaded Transactions
WORDS '02 Proceedings of the The Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2002)
DARX—A Framework For The Fault-Tolerant Support Of Agent Software
ISSRE '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Towards Robust Multi-Agent Systems: Handling Communication Exceptions in Double Auctions
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Combinatorial Auctions
Computationally-efficient combinatorial auctions for resource allocation in weakly-coupled MDPs
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Crash failure detection in asynchronous agent communication languages
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
AN ACL FOR SPECIFYING FAULT-TOLERANT PROTOCOLS
Applied Artificial Intelligence
Facilitating Agent Development in Open Distributed Systems
Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
The power of sequential single-item auctions for agent coordination
AAAI'06 proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Robust agent teams via socially-attentive monitoring
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Rule-Based automated price negotiation: overview and experiment
ICAISC'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
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Auction mechanisms are nowadays widely used in electronic commerce Web sites for buying and selling items among different users. The increasing importance of auction protocols in the negotiation phase is not limited to online marketplaces. In fact, the wide applicability of auctions as resource-allocation and negotiation mechanisms have also led to a great deal of interest in auctions within the agent community. A challenging issue for agents operating in open Multiagent Systems (such as the emerging semantic Web infrastructure) concerns the specification of declarative communication rules which could be published and shared allowing agents to dynamically engage well-known and trusted negotiation protocols. To cope with real-world applications, these rules should also specify fault tolerant patterns of interaction, enabling negotiating agents to interact with each other tolerating failures, for instance terminating an auction process even if some bidding agents dynamically crash. In this paper, we propose an approach to specify fault tolerant auction protocols in open and dynamic environments by means of communication rules dealing with crash failures of agents. We illustrate these concepts considering a case study about the specification of an English Auction protocol which tolerate crashes of bidding agents and we discuss its properties. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.