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Agent-Mediated Interaction. From Auctions to Negotiation and Argumentation
Carles Sierra,Pablo Noriega +1 more
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It is argued that an appropriate representation of the context and pragmatics associated to the interaction, as well as a practical way of enforcing the accepted in teraction conventions are essential for the design of successful MAS applications.Abstract:
Most approaches to modelling agent interactions tend to focus just on the mechanism: the protocol and language usedfor the interaction, andforget the context where that interaction takes place. We holdthat although the complexity of the problem to be solvedis associatedto the complexity of the mechanism, modelling the mechanism alone is insufficient. We argue that an appropriate representation of the context and pragmatics associatedto the interaction, as well as a practical way of enforcing the acceptedin teraction conventions are essential for the design of successful MAS applications. The concept of Electronic Institution is presentedb oth as a way to reconcile mechanisms with their corresponding pragmatic and contextual aspects, and away of extending familiar notions of mediation to MAS.read more
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Electronic Institutions: Future Trends and Challenges
Pablo Noriega,Carles Sierra +1 more
TL;DR: There are situations where individuals interact in ways that involve participants that are - Autonomous, Heterogeneous, Independent, Liability and Risk, which may seem overwhelmingly pessimistic.
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Reasoning with inconsistent ontologies through argumentation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present δ-ontologies, a framework for reasoning with inconsistent DL ontologies, which is based on defeasible logic programs (DeLP).
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On agent technology for e-commerce: trust, security and legal issues
TL;DR: The barriers for the adoption of agent technology in electronic commerce (e-commerce) which pertain to trust, security and legal issues are considered.
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ONTOarg: A decision support framework for ontology integration based on argumentation
TL;DR: ONTOarg, a decision support framework for performing local-as-view integration of possibly inconsistent and incomplete ontologies in terms of Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP), is presented.
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Defeasible reasoning in web-based forms through argumentation
TL;DR: This paper proposes extending traditional web-based forms to incorporate defeasible attributes as part of the knowledge that can be encoded by the form designer, expressed in terms of a Defeasible Logic Program.
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How to do things with words
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a series of lectures with the following topics: Lecture I * Lecture II* Lecture III * Lectures IV* Lectures V * LectURE VI * LectURES VI * LII * LIII * LIV * LVI * LIX
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Auctions and Bidding
R. Preston McAfee,John McMillan +1 more
TL;DR: Hayek as mentioned in this paper argued that the problem of rational economic order is determined by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.
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Automated Negotiation: Prospects, Methods and Challenges
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Autonomous Agents for Business Process Management
TL;DR: The motivation, conceptualization, design, and implementation of a novel agent-based business process management system that leads to a system that is significantly more agile and robust than its traditional counterparts is described.
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A Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation
TL;DR: A general framework for negotiation in which agents exchange proposals backed by arguments which summarise the reasons why the proposals should be accepted is described.