How to Recognize and Explain Bidding Strategies in Negotiation Support Systems

Effective use of negotiation support systems depends on the systems capability of explaining itself to the user. This paper introduces the notion of an explanation matrix and an aberration detection mechanism for bidding strategies. The aberration detection is a mechanism that detects if one of the negotiating parties deviates from their...

Tools for Developing Cognitive Agents

Agent-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm introduced roughly thirty years ago as an approach to problems in Artificial Intelligence (AI). An agent is a piece of software that can perceive its environment (e.g., through sensors) and act upon that environment (e.g., through actuators). A cognitive agent is a specific type of agent...

Recognising and explaining bidding strategies in negotiation support systems

To improve a negotiator's ability to recognise bidding strategies, we pro-actively provide explanations that are based on the opponent's bids and the negotiator's guesses about the opponent's strategy. We introduce an aberration detection mechanism for recognising strategies and the notion of an explanation matrix. The aberration detection...

Designing a source-level debugger for cognitive agent programs

When an agent program exhibits unexpected behaviour, a developer needs to locate the fault by debugging the agent’s source code. The process of fault localisation requires an understanding of how code relates to the observed agent behaviour. The main aim of this paper is to design a source-level debugger that supports single-step execution of a...

Relation inland waterway shipping and cargo handling

Schepen in dwarsstroom: Fysisch gevoeligheidsonderzoek

Dwarsstroomhinder bij de uitmonding van de Schelde-Rijnverbinding in het Volkerak

Stormvloedkering Oosterschelde: Nautische evaluatie van de geulen naar de bouwdokken : verslag onderzoek

Stormvloedkering Oosterschelde: Berekening krachten op drijvend hefmateriaal bij het plaatsen van onderdelen van de stormvloedkering

Schepen in dwarsstroom: Omstroming van en krachten op een schip in homogene dwarsstroom

Windvaanstuurinrichtingen. Mathematisch model voor het door een windvaan stuurinrichting geregelde stuurgedrag van een zeiljacht