We approach e-commerce and negotiation in the context of a distributed multi-agent peer help system, I-Help, supporting students in a university course. ... (help) from other agents. Negotiation is ...

The architecture diagram above illustrates the flow of information through the multi-agent system: User Layer : The user interacts with the web interface to submit queries and receive responses.

Multi-objective decision systems for the management, monitoring and control of complex processes require the application of new methods and models of abstraction and formal description based on ...

This is difficult for a single agent, but multiple agents working together will be well suited to this task. Further, each of these agents can be trained independently. Compared with a single agent, ...