Finding reliable partners to interact with in open environments is a challenging task for
software agents, and trust and reputation mechanisms are used to handle this issue. From …

Despite the advances made in artificial intelligence, software agents, and robotics, there is
little we see today that we can truly call a fully autonomous system. We conjecture that the …

Abstract The European Commission's eEurope initiative aims to bring every citizen, home,
school, business and administration online to create a digitally literate Europe. The value …

Cooperation among autonomous agents involves an inherent degree of uncertainty. Agents
determine for themselves when to initiate cooperation or to assist others, when to rescind …

This paper describes a new multi-player computer game, Colored Trails (CT), which may be
played by people, computers and heterogeneous groups. CT was designed to enable …

In two experiments centered around trust dynamics in human–robot interaction, we explored
the interplay between attribute-based characteristic of robots (ie, anthropomorphism and …

Teamwork between humans and computer agents has become increasingly prevalent. This
paper presents a behavioral study of fairness and trust in a heterogeneous setting …

This paper presents protocols and strategies for coalition formation with incomplete
information under time constraints. It focuses on strategies for coalition members to distribute …

In the current service-oriented economy, professional workforce and service personnel have
to make not only reasonable but also personalized recommendations in response to …

This volume was born from the experience of the authors as researchers and educators,
which suggests that many students of data mining are handicapped in their research by the …