Problems such as price volatility have been observed in electric power markets. Demand-side participation is often offered as a potential solution by promising to increase market ...
In this paper we consider how a BDI agent might determine its best course of action. We draw on previous work which has presented a model of persuasion over action and we discuss ...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
While context-awareness has been found to be effective for decision support in complex domains, most of such decision support systems are hard-coded, incurring significant develop...
In the last years, dozens of environments for modeling, testing and finally implementing multi-agent systems have been developed. Unfortunately, no standard criteria for understand...