Agent and Ontology are distinct technologies that arose independent of each other, having their own standards and specifications. The semantics web is one of the popular research areas these days, and is based on the current Web, which adds more semantics to it for the purpose of building the Ontology of Web content. In this regard, application program on Web can make the purpose of cross-platf...

Negotiations are known to proceed differently across cultures. A realistic agent model of international negotiations has to take cultural differences into account. This paper presents an agent-based model that tackles this challenge. The context is a trade game where commodities with a hidden quality attribute are exchanged. The negotiation model uses the ABMP negotiation architecture. It appli...

The current study explored the interaction of verbal ability and presentation order on readers' attitude formation when presented with two-sided arguments. Participants read arguments for and against compulsory voting and genetic engineering, and attitudes were assessed before and after reading the passages. Participants' verbal ability was measured, combining vocabulary knowledge and reading c...

<div align="center"><table width="645" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="439"><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The ICT advancement provokes the possibility of developing speaking skill through portfolio assessment which was commonly attributable mostly to writing skill. Hence, an exploratory study adopting ...

This paper analyzed 96 current electronic negotiation models concerning their ability to handle imperfect information situations. The results of the empirical investigation show that most of the negotiation models assume imperfect information situations but mainly related to the negotiation partner. Research on imperfect described environments and negotiation items are not sufficient represente...

There have recently been moves afoot among evolutionary biologists to stop speaking of ‘Darwin’s theory of evolution’ and, instead, to call it ‘Darwin’s law of evolution’. This is to stymie creationists who like to say ‘evolution is only a theory’. Now I am all in favour of stymieing creationists, but I think that this idea is misguided. The underlying assumption is that the use of the word ‘La...

Multi-agent systems Computational Trust Normative Control Betrayal Despite relevant insights from socio-economics, little research in multi-agent systems has addressed the interconnections between trust and normative notions such as contracts and sanctions. Focusing our attention on scenarios of betrayal, in this paper we combine the use of trust and sanctions in a negotiation process. We desc...