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Formal Models in Web Based Contracting
Hong Kong, China December 18-December 22
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WI-IATW.2006.742006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Confe ...
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Jose Machado, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Francisco Andrade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Jose Neves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Paulo Novais, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Cesar Analide, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Legal principles have some difficulty to deal with software agents celebrating contracts and operating in e-commerce environments without direct human intervention. Autonomous intelligent agents have a control on their own actions and states, supporting or taking effective decisions. Therefore, some qualitative parameters such as trust, reputation and quality of information have to be taken under consideration to evaluate, certify and justify such decisions. Indeed, this paper shows how to construct a dynamic virtual world of complex and interacting entities or agents, organized in terms of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), that compete against one another in order to solve a particular problem, according to a rigorous selection regime in which its fitness is judged by one criterion alone, a measure of the quality of information of the agent or agents, here understood as evolutionary logic theories. This virtual world could witness the emergence of our first learning, thinking machines, that may cater for some issues on the evolution of formal models of the world in general, and on what is concerned with the objectives set to this work, in contracting, and foray into a vast, untapped technological market.
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Jose Machado, Francisco Andrade, Jose Neves, Paulo Novais, Cesar Analide, "Formal Models in Web Based Contracting," wi-iatw, pp.548-554, 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, 2006
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