Automated negotiation is gaining interest, but issues relating to the construction of negotiating agent architectures have not been addressed sufficiently. Towards this end, we present a novel agent construction model that enables the development of a range of agent architectures based on a common set of building blocks. In this paper we identify the fundamental components needed for two generi...

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Applying Model Based Diagnosis (MBD) techniques in medical domains reveal the need to use deep causal knowledge modelling frameworks as well as temporal management techniques to capture the dynamic component of disease evolution (with the latter being very important in other domains). Despite the intense research activity in the field of Temporal MBD, there are three issues that not been analys...

Our objective is to determine if a first-price auction or a posted-price market provides a seller with the larger expected revenue when buyers have a common value for the item being sold. An agent-based, posted-price market and an agent-based, first-price common-value auction with a reserve price are developed to compare these selling methods. When the seller cannot impose a reserve price in th...

The first iteration of AFRL’s Agent-based Modeling and Behavior Representation (AMBR) Model Comparison Project was quite a learning experience for all involved. This paper focuses on feedback received, challenges faced, and lessons learned during and after Round 1 of the AMBR Model Comparison. We include a section on implications for future (or other) human model comparisons, in the hope that o...

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For agent-based modelling of collective phenomena, more and more agent models are employed that go beyond simple reactive behaviour. Such less trivial individual behaviours can be modelled either from an agent-internal perspective, in the form of direct (causal) temporal relations between internal states of the agent, or from an agent-external, behavioural perspective, in the form of more compl...