Cooperation plays a fundamental role in multi-agent systems in which individual agents must interact for the overall system to function effectively. However, cooperation inherently involves an element of risk, due to the unpredictable nature of other’s behaviour. In this paper, we consider the information needed by an agent to be able to assess the degree of risk involved in a particular course...

A key question in conditional planning is: how many, and which of the possible execution failures should be planned for? One cannot, in general, plan for all the possible failures because the search space is too large. One cannot ignore all the possible failures, or one will fail to produce sufficiently flexible plans. In this paper, we describe an approach to conditional planning that attempts...

The opportunity cost decision of selecting a software project is dependent, among other things, on how a given project best meets a company’s business goals and overall competitive strategy. Remaining competitive in the agile software market today requires selecting only those projects that position a business strategically in the market place and that render it competitive over time. Using an ...