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 to select a coordination mechanism
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Dynamic Evaluation of Coordination Mechanisms for Autonomous Agents
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
Commitment-based and dialogue-game-based protocols: new trends in agent communication languages
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Learning when and how to coordinate
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Reasoning about commitments in multiple concurrent negotiations
ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
DIAGAL: An Agent Communication Language Based on Dialogue Games and Sustained by Social Commitments
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Negotiation among autonomous computational agents: principles, analysis and challenges
Artificial Intelligence Review
Managing commitments in multiple concurrent negotiations
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
DIAGAL: a tool for analyzing and modelling commitment-based dialogues between agents
AI'03 Proceedings of the 16th Canadian society for computational studies of intelligence conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
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
Virtual enterprise normative framework within electronic institutions
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Modelling flexible social commitments and their enforcement
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Agent communication pragmatics: the cognitive coherence approach
Cognitive Systems Research
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
This paper develops and evaluates a new decision theoretic framework in which autonomous agents can make rational choices about coordinating their actions. The framework covers the decisions that are involved in determining when and how to coordinate, when to respond to requests for coordination and when it is profitable to drop contracts in order to exploit better opportunities. Our motivating hypothesis is that enabling agents to dynamically set and re-assess both their degree of commitment to one another and the sanctions for decommitment according to their prevailing circumstances will make coordination more effective. This hypothesis is evaluated, empirically, in a grid-world scenario, taking into account three levels of commitments (total, partial and loose) and three kinds of sanctions (fixed, partially sanctioned and sunk cost).