Mechanism design for automated negotiation, and its application to task oriented domains

摘要

As distributed systems of computers play an increasingly important role in society, it will be necessary to consider ways in which these machines can be made to interact effectively. Especially when the interacting machines have been independently designed, it is essential that the interaction environment be conducive to the aims of their designers. These designers might, for example, wish their machines to behave efficiently, and with a minimum of overhead required by the coordination mechanism itself. The rules of interaction should satisfy these needs, and others. Formal tools and analysis can help in the appropriate design of these rules.