Deliverables 2001, Quarter 1

Some papers may only be accessible by members of the Trade Agents project.

[1D1.1] Evolving Automata Negotiate with a Variety of Opponents - II (restricted access only)
Scientific report on automatic development of adaptive negotiation strategies for agents by means of co-evolution and finite automata. First results for the case of adaptive, evolving opponents.

[1D4.1] XML Communication (restricted access only)
Technical report on the application of XML for communication between clients and servers, and between agents. XML provides a standard structure for defining messages in predefined ontologies. The report will also describe code modules to standardize communication in the prototypes and the conceptual framework of work unit 1. Standards for communication protocols and message contents will be considered later in this project.