Collaborative Agents - Research and Development International Wo
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the first two international workshops on computational models of collaboration in distributed systems: CARE 2009, held as satellite event of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conferenc
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Christian Guttmann Frank Dignum Michael Georgeff (Eds.)
Collaborative Agents Research and Development International Workshops CARE@AI09 2009 / CARE@IAT10 2010 Melbourne, Australia, December 1, 2009 and Toronto, Canada, August 31, 2010 Revised Selected Papers
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Christian Guttmann School of Primary Health Care Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Centre (EBTIC) Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates E-mail: [email protected] Frank Dignum Department of Information and Computing Science Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Michael Georgeff School of Primary Health Care Monash University, Melbourne, Australia [email protected] ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-22426-3 e-ISBN 978-3-642-22427-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-22427-0 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011930957 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.5.3, H.3, C.2.4, H.4, J.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence
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Preface
Collaboration is required when multiple agents achieve complex goals that are difficult or impossible to attain for an individual agent. This collaboration takes place under conditions of incomplete information, uncertainty, and bounded rationality, much of which has been previously studied in economics and artificial intelligence. However, many real-world domains are characterized by even greater complexity, including the possibility of unreliable and non-complying collaborators, complex market and incentive frameworks, and complex transaction costs and organizational structures. The focus of the International Work
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