Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
8th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
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Co-learning Segmentation in Marketplaces
We present the problem of automatic co-niching in which potential suppliers of some product or service need to determine which offers to make to the marketplace at the same time as potential buyers need to determ...
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Arguments over Co-operative Plans
Autonomous planning agents that share a common goal should be able to propose, justify and share information about plans. To reach an agreement on the best plan, strategies for persuasion and negotiation could...
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Using Argumentation to Reason with and about Trust
Trust is an approach to managing the uncertainty about autonomous entities and the information they store, and so can play an important role in any decentralized system. As a result, trust has been widely stud...
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What Are Models for?
In this paper I discuss some of the purposes and functions of building models, particularly agent-based models, and present a comprehensive list of these purposes and functions. Careful thought and attention i...
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Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
7th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2010 Toronto, ON, Canada, May 10, 2010 Revised, Selected and Invited Papers
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Reasoning about Trust Using Argumentation: A Position Paper
Trust is a mechanism for managing the uncertainty about autonomous entities and the information they store, and so can play an important role in any decentralized system. As a result, trust has been widely stu...
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Some Thoughts on Using Argumentation to Handle Trust
This paper describes some of our recent work on using argumentation to handle information about trust. We first discuss the importance of trust in computer science in general and in multi-agent systems in part...
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Market-based control of computational systems: introduction to the special issue
We introduce the Special Issue of the journal on the topic of Market-Based Control of Computational Systems. The special issue collects six peer-reviewed papers arising from an International Workshop on the to...
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Evolutionary mechanism design: a review
The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of all of the components of the system in a...
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What the 2007 TAC Market Design Game tells us about effective auction mechanisms
This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 tac Market Design Game. We present a classification of the entries to the competition, and use this classification to compare these entries. The paper also attempts to...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
6th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009. Revised Selected and Invited Papers
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How Specialised Are Specialists? Generalisation Properties of Entries from the 2008 and 2009 TAC Market Design Competitions
Unlike the classic Trading Agent competition (tac), where participants enter trading strategies into a market, the tac Market Design Competition (cat) allows participants to create rules for their own double auct...
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Towards Dynamic Assignment of Rights and Responsibilities to Agents (Short Version)
In multi-agent systems (MASs), the concepts of organization and roles provide a useful way to structure the activities of agents and of the system, and thus provide a means to structure the design and engineer...
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Pre-processing Techniques for Anytime Coalition Structure Generation Algorithms
This paper is concerned with optimal coalition structure generation in multi-agent systems. For characteristic function game representations, we propose pre-processing techniques, presented in the form of filt...
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Argumentation and Artifact for Dialogue Support
Intelligent and autonomous software agents may engage in dialogue and argument with one another, and much recent research has considered protocols, architectures and frameworks for this. Just as with human dia...
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Annotation and Matching of First-Class Agent Interaction Protocols
Many practitioners view agent interaction protocols as rigid specifications that are defined a priori, and hard-code their agents with a set of protocols known at design time — an unnecessary restriction for inte...
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Integrating Data Mining and Agent Based Modeling and Simulation
In this paper, we introduce an integration study which combines Data Mining (DM) and Agent Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS). This study, as a new paradigm for DM/ABMS, is concerned with two approaches: (i)...
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Dialogue Games for Agent Argumentation
The rise of the Internet and the growth of distributed computing have led to a major paradigm shift in software engineering and computer science. Until recently, the notion of computation has been variously const...
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Command Dialogues
We propose a representation of imperatives in computational systems, and a multi-agent dialogue protocol to argue over these. Our representation treats a command as a presumptive argument for an action to be e...
