There is a veritable menagerie of auctions—single-dimensional, multi-dimensional, single-
sided, double-sided, first-price, second-price, English, Dutch, Japanese, sealed-bid—and …

In past decades, significant attention has been devoted to the task allocation and load
balancing in distributed systems. Although there have been some related surveys about this …

A human–robot hybrid cell is developed for flexible assembly in manufacturing through the
collaboration between a human and a robot. The selected task is to assemble a few LEGO …

Research on optimization in multi-agent systems (MASs) has contributed with a wealth of
techniques to solve many of the challenges arising in a wide range of multi-agent …

In many dynamic open systems, autonomous agents must interact with one another to
achieve their goals. Such agents may be self-interested and, when trusted to perform an …

Research addressing the influence of happy mood on self‐focused attention has yielded
inconsistent results. Some studies found that happy mood decreased self‐focus relative to …

Task execution of multiagent systems in social networks (MAS-SN) can be described
through agents' operations when accessing necessary resources distributed in the social …

Crowdsourcing has recently been significantly explored. Although related surveys have
been conducted regarding this subject, each has mainly consisted of a review of a single …

Belief revision is concerned with incorporating new information into a pre-existing set of
beliefs. When the new information comes from another agent, we must first determine if that …

We consider an outsourcing problem where a software agent procures multiple services
from providers with uncertain reliabilities to complete a computational task before a strict …