Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
On social laws for artificial agent societies: off-line design
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on computational research on interaction and agency, part 2
Planning in distributed artificial intelligence
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Distributed models for decision support
Multiagent systems
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Decentralized A.I. 2
Social Co-ordination among Autonomous Problem-Solving Agents
Proceedings of the Workshops on Commonsense Reasoning, Intelligent Agents, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Formalisms, Methodologies, and Applications
A Kernel-Oriented Model for Autonomous-Agent Coalition-Formation in General Environments
Proceedings of the First Australian Workshop on DAI: Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Architecture and Modelling
Moral Sentiments in Multi-Agent Systems
ATAL '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents V, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Co-ordination in artificial agent societies: social structures and its implications for autonomous problem-solving agents
Knowledge Modelling in Multiagent Systems: The Case of the Management of a National Network
IS&N '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks: Paving the Way for an Open Service Market
Moral Sentiments in Multi-Agent Systems
ATAL '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents V, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Task Decomposition and Dynamic Role Assignment for Real-Time Strategic Teamwork
ATAL '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents V, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
A Classification Schema to Volumes 1 to 5 of the Intelligent Agents Series
ATAL '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents V, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
A Reactive Approach for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems
ATAL '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents V, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
The Right Agent (Architecture) to do the Right Thing
ATAL '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents V, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
A market-inspired approach for intersection management in urban road traffic networks
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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In Distributed Problem-solving systems a group of purposefully designed computational agents interact and co-ordinate their activities so as to jointly achieve a global task. Social co-ordination is a decentralised mechanism, that sets out from autonomous, non-benevolent agents that interact primarily to improve the degree of attainment of their local goals. One way of ensuring the effectiveness of social co-ordination with respect to global problem solving is to rely on self-interested agents and to coerce their behaviour in a desired direction. In this paper we model the notion of social structure for a particular class of multiagent domains, and determine its functionality with respect to social co-ordination. We show how social structure can be used to bias macrolevel properties in the frame of multiagent system design, and discuss microlevel implications respecting the architecture of autonomous problem-solving agents.