Negotiation with the MQ Model
Papers in this class focus on the role of the MQ model in agent negotiation.
From a high-level, the model gives the agents the ability to compare self-interested
motivations to cooperative motivations and to reason about motivations between
these extremes.
Information on the MQ framework itself is here.
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Shelley XQ Zhang, Victor Lesser, and Thomas Wagner, "Integrative Negotiation In Complex Organizational
Agent Systems," 2003 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), 2003. (DRAFT)
Paper is available in [ Acrobat PDF format,
size is 112 k ]
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Shelley XQ Zhang, Victor Lesser, and Thomas Wagner, "A Two-Level Negotiation Framework for Complex Negotiations,"
2003 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), 2003. (DRAFT)
Paper is available in [ Acrobat PDF format, size is 124 k ]
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Shelley XQ Zhang, Victor Lesser, and Thomas Wagner, "How Cooperative Should I Be?,"
Under Review, (DRAFT), 2001.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 110 k ]
[ Postscript format, size is 172 k ]
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Shelley XQ Zhang, Victor Lesser, and Thomas Wagner, "A Proposed Approach to
Sophisticated Negotiation," AAAI Symposium on Negotiation Methods for
Autonomous Cooperative Systems, Fall, 2001.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 156 k ]
[ Postscript format, size is 332 k ]
Coordination Centered Control Issues
Papers in this class focus on the coordination problem and how the
process of coordinating multiple agents interacts with the local
control problem solving of individual agents.
Papers that deal with multi-agent negotiation via the MQ model are here.
Papers on the MQ model itself are here.
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Thomas Wagner, John Phelps, Valerie Guralnik, and Ryan VanRiper,
"COORDINATORS - Coordination Managers for First Responders,"
under review, January, 2004. Another paper with a bit more application information
is above.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 3,900 k ]
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Thomas Wagner, John Phelps, and Valerie Guralnik,
"Centralized Versus Decentralized Coordination: Two Application Case Studies,"
To appear in An Application Science for Multi-Agent Systems, an edited collection
by Kluwer, January, 2004.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 4,000 k ]
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Thomas Wagner, Valerie Guralnik, and John Phelps,
"A Key-based Coordination Algorithm for Dynamic Readiness and Repair Service Coordination,"
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MAS, (AAMAS2003), 2003. Nominated for most novel
application award.
A version is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 1370 k ]
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Thomas Wagner, Valerie Guralnik, and John Phelps,
"TAEMS Agents: Enabling Dynamic Distributed Supply Chain Management,"
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Elsevier, 2003.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 3,736 k ]
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Thomas Wagner, Valerie Guralnik, and John Phelps,
"Software Agents for Dynamic Supply Chain Management,"
Proceedings of the Workshop on Agents for Business to Business Ecommerce, AAAI02, 2002.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 320 k ]
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Victor Lesser, Keith Decker, Thomas Wagner et al,
"Evolution of the GPGP/TAEMS Domain Independent Coordination Framework,"
To appear in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2004.
A draft version of the paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 960 k ]
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Thomas Wagner, Valerie Guralnik, and John Phelps, "Achieving Global Coherence in Multi-Agent Caregiver
Systems: Centralized versus Distributed Response Coordination in I.L.S.A,"
AAAI Workshop on Automation as Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care, July 2002.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 224 k ]
- Thomas Wagner, Brett Benyo, Victor Lesser, and Ping Xuan, "Investigating
Interactions Between Agent Conversations and Agent Control Components," In
Issues in Agent Communication, Frank Dignum and Mark
Greaves, editors, Springer-Verlag, 2000, pages 314-331.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 556 k ]
[ Postscript format, size is 616 k ]
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Thomas Wagner and Victor Lesser, "Toward Ubiquitous Satisficing Agent
Control," Proceedings of the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium on
Satisficing Models, 1998.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 444 k ]
[ Postscript format, size is 188 k ]
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Thomas Wagner, Jonathan Shapiro, Ping Xuan, and Victor Lesser, "Multi-Level
Conflict in Multi-Agent Systems,"
AAAI Workshop on Negotiation in Agent Systems, March 1999.
Paper is available in
[ Acrobat PDF format, size is 232 k ]
[ Postscript format, size is 296 k ]