Ž . In automated negotiation systems for self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. They do not accommodate future events. Contingency contracts address this, but are often impractical. As an alternative, we propose le eled commitment contracts. The level of commitment is set by breach penalties. To be freed from the contract, an agent simply pays the penalty to the othe...

In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts i.e. contracts where each party can decommit by paying a predetermined penalty were recently shown to improve expected social welfare even if agents decommit insincerely in Nash equilibrium. Such contracts differ based on whether agents have to declare t...

As agents become more autonomous, agent negotiation and motivational attitudes such as commitment and trust become more important. In this paper we consider the important choice in advanced negotiation applications whether negotiation parameters – such as cardinality of interaction, agent attitude, and agent architectures – are incorporated in the negotiation protocol or in the negotiation stra...

We present an improved version of the virtual leveled network routing strategy for mesh connected computers. This improvement achieves a speedup of approximately 2, and requires practically no additional hardware. We connrm this by providing experimental results concerning time to accomplish CRCW PRAM simulation innuenced routing situations.

Glycoscience—the study of the complex carbohydrates on the surface of proteins and lipids—has long been the neglected stepchild of molecular biology. Although genomics, proteomics and now systems biology have become hot topics of biomedical research, attracting both researchers and funding, glycoscience has played a rather minor role. Once of little interest to understanding biology on a larger...