T. Sandholm and V. Lesser. An exchange protocol without enforcement. In Proc. of the 11th Int. Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Washington, USA, 1994. Home/Search Document Details and Download
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Scheduling Non-Enforceable Contracts Among Autonomous Agents - Tesch, Aberer (1998) (Correct)
....etc. If there is no real world entity connected with the software agent, unilateral defection can be a rational option for the owner. Due to a lack of a legal framework in international computer networks, it is not realistic to assume that a contract can subsequently be enforced by common laws [14]. A service enabling cooperation among agents has to deal with the mentioned problems. The major challenge of a cooperation instance is to give guarantees to the cooperators that cannot be enforced by the cooperation instance itself, i.e. the cooperation instance can neither force an agent to ....
....information is acceptable, because it will help an agent to find an optimal solution for itself. This also holds for the solution presented here. It has been argued in [19] that some assumption of classical game theoretic approaches limit the applicability of game theory to solve real problems. [15, 14] has investigated how exchanges can be carried out among agents without the involvement of a third party. The basic idea of the proposed mechanism is making the present less important compared to the future (initially suggested by [1] An exchange module schedules an agents deliveries in such a ....
T. Sandholm and V. Lesser. An exchange protocol without enforcement. In Proc. of the 11th Int. Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Washington, USA, 1994.
Equilibrium Analysis of the Possibilities of Unenforced.. - Sandholm, Lesser (1995) (26 citations) Self-citation (Sandholm Lesser) (Correct)
....supported by the Finnish Culture Foundation, Honkanen Foundation, and Ella and George Ehrnrooth Foundation. The content does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government and no official endorsement should be inferred. An early version of this paper appeared in a workshop [Sandholm and Lesser, 1994]. different real world parties. Agents in such systems often act based on self interest, and the protocols have to be constructed accordingly. An example interaction protocol is the auction, where some agents bid to take responsibility for a task, which is awarded to the lowest price bidder. The ....
Tuomas W Sandholm and Victor R Lesser. An exchange protocol without enforcement. In Proc. 13th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI-94), pages 305--319, Seattle, WA, July 1994.
An Exchange Protocol without Enforcement - Sandholm, Lesser (1994) (1 citation) Self-citation (Sandholm Lesser) (Correct)
.... may be a lack of laws for interactions of computational agents, or the agents may be governed by different laws (e.g. sited in different countries) It may also be the case that the laws are not strictly enforced or that enforcing them (e.g. by litigation) is This paper is an extended version of [10]. y This research was supported by ARPA contract N00014 92 J 1698. The content does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government and no official endorsement should be inferred. 1 impractically expensive. We would like the agents interactions to work properly ....
Sandholm, T. and Lesser, V. 1994. An Exchange Protocol without Enforcement. In Proc. 13th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Washington.
Cooperative Information Gathering: A Distributed Problem.. - Oates, Prasad, Lesser (52 citations) Self-citation (Lesser) (Correct)
....on hand can in turn serve to instantiate and actively direct further retrieval process to resolve the deficiencies in the partial data. Other work in MAS, though not directly falling under the umbrella of FA C approach, could act as enabling technologies for multi agent based CIG. The contract net[33, 32] is a top down work allocation scheme among agent sets, where an agent wanting to delegate or contract out a piece of work for some reason announces the work to the agent set. The agents with capabilities to accomplish it respond with a bid and the announcing agent allocates the work to the agent ....
T. W. Sandholm and V. R. Lesser, "An Exchange Protocol Without Enforcement", in the Proceedings of 13th International Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop, Seattle, WA., July 1994.
Cooperative Information Gathering: A Distributed Problem.. - Oates, Prasad, Lesser (52 citations) Self-citation (Lesser) (Correct)
....with capabilities to accomplish it respond with a bid and the announcing agent allocates the work to the agent with the best bid. The contract net framework can be used to enforce a problem dependent organization among a set of DPS agents. Along another direction is the work on selfish agents[25, 33]. Unlike the agents discussed previously, a selfish agent places self interest above any global requirements and cooperates to the extent of serving its own interests. In a market economy of information servers as suppliers and free lancing agents as consumers, the selfishness assumption may ....
T. W. Sandholm and V. R. Lesser, "An Exchange Protocol Without Enforcement", in the Proceedings of 13th International Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop, Seattle, WA., July 1994.
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