As the information relative to endowments, costs and preferences is dispersed among many agents, the quality of resource allocation depends on the ability of markets to communicate information inside the economic system. Because information is transferred through negotiation and transaction...

Nous présentons un modèle d'économie dynamique et complexe dans laquelle la création et la destruction de monnaie résultent des interactions entre des agents multiples et hétérogènes. Ce modèle peut se reproduire de période en période en stabilisant la répartition du revenu entre...

Companies operate in an environment increasingly demanding in terms of flexibility and reactivity. The introduction of the entities resulting from Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in the management of enterprises prove to be an interesting technology to...

Software agents (SA) could be useful in forming buyers' groups since humans have considerable difficulty in finding Pareto-optimal deals (no buyer can be better without another being worse) in negotiation situations. Then what are the computational and economical performances of SA for a...

Available resources can often be limited with regard to the number of demands. In this paper we propose an approach for solving this problem which consists of using the mechanisms of multi-item auctions for allocating the resources to a set of software agents. We consider the resource problem as...