We look at any cooperative design process as a decision making process, i.e. a non deterministic process. The process is performed by responsible agents having the freedom to decide how to proceed according to their assessment of the situation they are faced to. However, the cooperative design process cannot be an ad-hoc and chaotic process. We look at it as a repeatable process made of steps r...

INtrODUctION Humans have learned to cooperate in many ways and in many environments, on different tasks, and for achieving different and several goals. Collaboration and cooperation in their more general sense (and, in particular, negotiation, exchange, help, delegation, adoption, and so on) are important characteristics-or better, the most foundational aspects-of human societies (Tuomela, 1995...

This paper presents a class of cooperative coevolutionary algorithms executing in a distributed information architecture consisting of coevolutionary agents, mobile software agents, and databases for superior network-efficient search and consequent distributed decision-making. In this approach to distributed decision-making, an objective function guides the concurrent search for logically inter...

At RoboCup, teams of autonomous robots or software softbots compete in simulated soccer matches to demonstrate cooperative robotics techniques in a very difficult, real-time, noisy environment. At the IJCAI/RoboCup97 softbot competition, all entries but ours used human-crafted cooperative decision-making behaviors. We instead entered a softbot team whose high-level decision making behaviors had...

The literature has been relatively silent about post-conflict processes. However, understanding the way humans deal with post-conflict situations is a challenge in our societies. With this in mind, we focus the present study on the rationality of cooperative decision making after an intergroup conflict, i.e., the extent to which groups take advantage of post-conflict situations to obtain benefi...