Understanding the Emergence of Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:467057, abstract = {In this paper, we investigate techniques via which a group of autonomous agents can reach a global agreement on the use of social conventions by using only locally available information. Such conventions play a central role in naturally-occurring social systems, and there are good reasons for supposing that they will play a similarly important role in artificial social systems. Following a short review of conventions and their use in distributed artificial intelligence, we present a...}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, author = {Walker, Adam and Wooldridge, Michael}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi--Agent Systems}, citeulike-article-id = {467057}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.31.4041}, editor = {Lesser, Victor}, keywords = {agent, consensus, conventions, emergence}, pages = {384--389}, posted-at = {2006-01-17 13:42:18}, priority = {1}, publisher = {MIT Press}, title = {Understanding the Emergence of Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.31.4041}, year = {1995} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:467057 L3 - citeulike-article-id:467057 N2 - In this paper, we investigate techniques via which a group of autonomous agents can reach a global agreement on the use of social conventions by using only locally available information. Such conventions play a central role in naturally-occurring social systems, and there are good reasons for supposing that they will play a similarly important role in artificial social systems. Following a short review of conventions and their use in distributed artificial intelligence, we present a... AD - San Francisco, CA EP - 389 TI - Understanding the Emergence of Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems PB - MIT Press T2 - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi--Agent Systems SP - 384 KW - agent KW - consensus KW - conventions KW - emergence AU - Walker, Adam AU - Wooldridge, Michael A2 - Lesser, Victor PY - 1995/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.31.4041 ER -