Negotiation Bargaining

Negotiation Bargaining

Bargaining is a simple form of the distributive negotiation process that is both competitive and positional. Bargaining doesn’t seek to create value but instead focuses on negotiators claiming value.Bargaining very…
What is agent communication?

What is agent communication?

Communication is necessary in order to allow collaboration, negotiation, cooperation, etc… between independent entities. For this purpose, it requires a well-defined, agreed and commonly understood semantics. Therefore, there cannot be…
Truth Maintenance Systems

Truth Maintenance Systems

inferences drawn by the knowledge representation system will have only default status, rather than being absolutely certain. Inevitably, some of these inferred "facts" will turn out to be wrong and…
Reasoning Systems for Categories

Reasoning Systems for Categories

2 families of systems designed for organizing and reasoning with categories:  semantic networks - utilizing graphs and algorithms for inferring properties of an object on the basis of its category membership…
Mental Events and Mental Objects

Mental Events and Mental Objects

The agents we have constructed so far have beliefs and can deduce new beliefs. Yet none of them has any knowledge about beliefs or about deduction. Knowledge about one’s own knowledge and reasoning processes…
Categories and Objects

Categories and Objects

categories are an important aspect of general knowledge reasoning strict kind categories - an object is a triangle iff it is a polygon with 3 sidesnatural kind categories - have no clear cut…
Ontological Engineering

Ontological Engineering

ontological engineering - representing abstract concepts (e.g. actions, time, physical objects, and beliefsupper ontology - a general framework of concepts have to handle exceptions and uncertainty 2 major characteristics of general-purpose ontologies…