MICHAEL SCHROEDER

KER Journal 1999 Journal Article

Negotiation in multi-agent systems

• Martin Beer
• MARK D'INVERNO
• Michael Luck
• NICK JENNINGS
• CHRIS PREIST
• MICHAEL SCHROEDER

In systems composed of multiple autonomous agents, negotiation is a key form of interaction thatenables groups of agents to arrive at a mutual agreement regarding some belief, goal or plan, forexample. Particularly because the agents are autonomous and cannot be assumed to bebenevolent, agents must influence others to convince them to act in certain ways, and negotiationis thus critical for managing such inter-agent dependencies. The process of negotiation may be ofmany different forms, such as auctions, protocols in the style of the contract net, and argumentation, but it is unclear just how sophisticated the agents or the protocols for interaction must be forsuccessful negotiation in different contexts. All these issues were raised in the panel session onnegotiation.

KER Journal 1997 Journal Article

Methodological foundations for agent-based systems

• Michael Fisher
• JÖRG MÜLLER
• MICHAEL SCHROEDER
• GEOF STANIFORD
• Gerd Wagner

In spite of the rapid spread of agent technology, there is, as yet, little evidence of an engineering approach to the development of agent-based systems. In particular, development methods for these systems are relatively rare. One of the key reasons for this is the inadequacy of standard software development approaches for these new, and fundamentally different, agent-based systems. Traditional software development methods often lack the flexibility to handle high-level concepts such as an agent's dynamic control of its own behaviour, its ability to represent cooperative interactions, and its mechanisms for representing internal change, assumptions, objectives, and the uncertainty inherent in its interactions with the real-world.

IJCAI Conference 1995 Conference Paper

A Formal Framework for Representing Diagnosis Strategies in Model-Based Diagnosis Systems

• Wolfgang Nejdl Peter Frohlich
• MICHAEL SCHROEDER