Research Applications of the MAGNET Multi-Agent Contracting Testbed

Abstract

MAGNET is a testbed for exploring decision processes andagent interactions in the domain of multi-agent contracting. We are i nterested in learning how a community of hetero-geneous, self-interested agents, can operate to discover re-sources, make commitments, and carry out plans that in-volvemultipletasksandrequirecoordinationamongagents. We assume that this community of agents contains someagents who have goals that they themselves cannot fully sat-isfy. They may lack the abilities, or they may lack the re-sources, to carry out at least some of the operations in theirplans. Therearealsootherself-interestedagentsinthecom-munity who have resources to offer, and who are willing tomake those resources available to other agents in a way thatmaximizes their value to the agents that control them. The MAGNET system (Collins

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Text

Collins and Gini. "Research Applications of the MAGNET Multi-Agent Contracting Testbed." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2002. doi:10.5555/777092.777266

Markdown

[Collins and Gini. "Research Applications of the MAGNET Multi-Agent Contracting Testbed." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2002.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2002/collins2002aaai-research/) doi:10.5555/777092.777266

BibTeX

@inproceedings{collins2002aaai-research,
  title     = {{Research Applications of the MAGNET Multi-Agent Contracting Testbed}},
  author    = {Collins, John and Gini, Maria L.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2002},
  pages     = {996-997},
  doi       = {10.5555/777092.777266},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2002/collins2002aaai-research/}
}