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     ACS NSW AISIG - Artificial Intelligence - Monthly Meeting

Date:     Wednesday 29th May 2002.

Time:     6:00pm till 7:30pm & dinner afterwards.

Topic:     Negotiation Mechanisms

Multiagent systems (distributed artificial intelligence) began
by focussing primarily on cooperative interaction between agents.
There has been a consistent increase in interest in competitive
behaviour.  In the late 90s, electronic commerce became fused with
rational agents in "agent-mediated electronic commerce".  The
distributed nature of the Internet itself creates a need for
'objects' to be able to look after themselves economically and
to 'deal' with potential users of their services.  This seminar
will look at some 'neat' negotiation mechanisms particularly
those that have come from economics.



Speaker:     John Debenham


Scope of the Group:
       to maintain and acquire knowledge about the changing focus of 
      leading edge research and technology transfer

        Evolutionary programming         Soft computing      Complexity
Biotechnology          Ethics          Privacy        Knowledge management
             Networks             Agent technology         Induction
Model-based reasoning         Neuro-Fuzzy         Case Based Reasoning
             Ontologies          Philosophy             Cognition


Place: ACS NSW Offices, 3rd floor PSA House
                        160 Clarence Street, Sydney

       between Market & King Streets, closer to Town Hall than Wynyard
       behind the Bowler's Club.

Contact: Michael Williams (02) 9228-1052 (work)
  email: michaelw@acslink.net.au
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