We present an agent-based model of peer review built on three entities the paper, the scientist and the conference. The systems is implemented on a BDI platform (Jason) that allows us to define a rich model of scoring, evaluating and selecting papers for conferences. Some of the reviewers apply a strategy (called “rational cheating”) aimed to prevent papers better than their own to be accepted....

Adaptation is an important feature of human organizations. Being able to change allows them not only to survive, but to evolve to get new advantages from new situations happening in their environment or from inside the organization. The same way human organizations do, agent organizations should be able to adapt. Even if adaptation is addressed in the literature, it lacks the ability to clearly...

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System. he hiring and firing decisions of individual businesses are one of the drivers behind movements in the unemployment rate during expansions and recessions. Whether a recession is driven by large job losses or weak hiring will grea...

This paper describes a team of agents that took part in the second CLIMA Contest. The team was implemented in a logic-based language for BDI agents and was run in a Java-based interpreter that makes it easy for legacy code to be invoked from within the agents’ practical reasoning. Even though the implementation was not completely finished in time, the team won the competition, and the experienc...

Portfolio implementation is critical for investment success. Seemingly minor differences in portfolio construction can lead to major differences in performance outcomes. In this paper, we summarize the differences between two popular portfolio construction approaches, “mix” and “integrate,” and examine a handful of value and momentum-themed examples to demonstrate how these differences play out...

This document describes an overview of a multi-agent system formed by a team of cowboys to compete in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2008 (the “Cows and Herders” scenario). In the two previous contests we tested and improved Jason , the interpreter for an agent programming language used to implement the MAS. Jason [2] is an agent platform based on an extension of an agent-oriented programm...

Data from four satellite altimeters are combined with the aim of improving the representation of the mesoscale variability in the Global Ocean. All missions [Jason-1, ERS-2/ENVISAT, Topex/Poseidon interleaved with Jason-1 and Geosat Follow-On] are cross-calibrated previously to produce weekly gridded maps. In areas of intense variability, the rms differences between a classical configuration of...

In this paper we study context–sensitive versions of bidirectional Optimality Theory (OT). We discuss a problem presented by Jason Mattausch which shows that context–sensitivity may lead into circularity. In order to be able to represent it we introduce a fundamental structure for bidirectional OT which we call Blutner structure. The discussion of Mattausch’s Example leads us to combine bidirec...

Modeling and regulating interactions among agents is a critical step in the development of Multiagent Systems (MASs). Some recent works assume a normative view, and suggest to model interaction protocols in terms of obligations. In this paper we propose to model interaction protocols in terms of goals and commitments, and show how such a formalization promotes a deliberative process inside the ...