This volume contains the papers presented at the Student Session of the 11th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) held on 2nd of September 2009 at Educatorio della Providenza, Turin, Italy.The Student Session, organised by students, is designed to encourage student interaction and...

This volume contains the papers presented at the Student Session of the 11th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) held on 2nd of September 2009 at Educatorio della Providenza, Turin, Italy. The Student Session, organised by students, is designed to encourage student interaction and...

This volume contains the papers presented at the Student Session of the 11th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) held on 2nd of September 2009 at Educatorio della Providenza, Turin, Italy. The Student Session, organised by students, is designed to encourage student interaction and...

In the seminal work "An Evolutionary Approach to Norms", Axelrod identified internalization as one of the key mechanisms that supports the spreading and stabilization of norms. But how does this process work? This paper advocates a rich cognitive model of different types, degrees and factors of...

Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. The emergence of such conventions in different multi agent network topologies has been investigated by several researchers, although exploring only...

The Internet has caused a revolution in trading. Especially cheap items are now easy to buy and sell on the Internet. As a consequence, sellers nowadays offer a wide range of products on the web, creating an abundance of choice for consumers. Consumers have the opportunity to browse on different...

This volume contains the papers presented at the Student Session of the 12th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) held on 25th of August 2010 at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France. The Student Session, organised by students, is designed to encourage student...

New networking technologies such as wireless mobile grids and peer-to-peer middleware are examples of a growing class of open distributed systems whose strength is the absence of a central controlling instance and which function through the cooperation of autonomous entities that voluntarily...

This volume contains the papers presented at the Student Session of the 12th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) held on 25th of August 2010 at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France.The Student Session, organised by students, is designed to encourage student...