This paper outlines an approach to communication among design agents in a multi-agent environment. This approach is founded on the concepts of situatedness from cognitive science and is an extension of traditional multi-agent communication.

This paper focuses on implementation issues in environments where it may be costly for the players to send certain messages. We suggest an approach allowing to characterize the set of implementable outcomes, and then apply it to derive optimal mechanisms in a number of environments. The key elements of our approach are the absence of any restrictions on the communication structure in a mechanis...

The curse of the Revelation Principle is that it leads us to focus on unrealistic mechanisms in which agents report all private information to the principal, who then makes all decisions centrally. This is not true when communication costs are introduced. Then partial communication of information, sequential back-and-forth conversations, and decentralization of decisions become part of optimal ...

Over the past few decades there have been many mathematical models for the design and dimensioning of public and private communication networks. These models have tended to concentrate upon the performance aspects of the network and to determine the link and node capacities which are required to meet prescribed performance objectives of loss and/or delay. The primary objective has been to minim...

This Special Issue offers a window into the thriving research and practice field of design communication. It is of interest to researchers working on information processing, task coordination, and collaboration in design as applied to a number of domains, including engineering design, architecture and construction, industrial and product design, human-centered and interaction design, strategic ...

the study describes and evaluates inter-organizational communication and relationships involving rural development management of community lands within specific perimetros florestais in portugal. the research design is an exploratory research study approach that collected information with a mail questionnaire, interviews and information gleaned from community land association meetings and an in...