Formalizing and achieving multiparty agreements via commitments

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 899-906

  Wan, Feng ^a   Singh, Munindar P ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Agreements; Commitments; Multiagent Systems

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTRACTS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

AGENT INTERACTIONS; COMMITMENTS; MULTIPARTY AGREEMENTS; POTENTIAL CONFLICTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644789552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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