Design of supplier agents for an auction-based market
Stefan Botman, Mark Hoogendoorn, Vasile Bud, Ashutosh Jaiswal, Steve Hawkins, Yelena Kryzhnyaya, Janice L. Pearce, Anne Schoolcraft, Espen Sigvartsen, John E Collins, Maria L. Gini · 2002
We are interested in supporting multi-agent contracting in which customer agents solicit the resources and capabilities of other selfinterested supplier agents in order to accomplish their goals. Goals may involve the execution of multi-step tasks in which di#erent tasks are contracted out to di#erent suppliers.