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Agreement Technologies – Towards Sophisticated Software Agents

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Nowadays, agreements and all the processes and mechanisms implicated in reaching agreements between different kinds of agents are a subject of perspective interdisciplinary scientific research. Newest trend in Agent Technology is to enhance agents with "social" abilities. Agreement Technologies brings new flavor in implementation of more sophisticated autonomous software agents that negotiate to achieve acceptable agreements.

The paper presents key concepts in this area and highlights influence of Agreement Technologies on development of more sophisticated multi-agent systems.

The work is partially supported by Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia, through project no. OI174023: “Intelligent techniques and their integration into wide-spectrum decision support”

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Ivanović, M., Budimac, Z. (2014). Agreement Technologies – Towards Sophisticated Software Agents. In: Hwang, D., Jung, J.J., Nguyen, NT. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications. ICCCI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8733. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11289-3_1

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