A Structured Environment to Facilitate Agreements

Multi-Agent Systems are good candidates to solve so-called DDD problems by making agents to get into joint agreements. A relevant component of a MAS is the Environment seen as an active medium to reach agreements or mutual contracts. In ANTE, besides being a facili- tator, the Environment is also seen as a regulator as well as exploited as the social medium playing an active role in inuencing agents behavior.

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