We study how improvements in communication technology allow for the development of anonymous, internet-mediated, problem-solving markets. These markets are plagued by infor-mational asymmetries, since the di ¢ culty of the question posed, the quality of the consultants o¤ering help, and often

. Our works focus on modeling and engineering of complex systems using a holonic organizational approach. This paper introduces the concept of capacity as the description of agents know-how. This concept allows the representation and reasoning about agents know-hows. Even more, it encourages a reusable

of an agent situated in a complex environment. I also present some theorems giving useful properties of know-how, and discuss and resolve an interesting paradox (which is described within). This is done using a new operator in the spirit of Dynamic Logic that is introduced herein and whose semantics and proof

Abstract While there are many Web services which help users find things to buy, we know of none which actually try to automate the process of buying and selling. Kasbah is a system where users create autonomous agents to buy and sell goods on their behalf. In this paper, we describe how Kasbah

their goals. Our works focus on modeling and engineering of complex systems using a holonic organizational approach. This paper introduces the concept of capacity as the description of agents know-how. This concept allows the representation and reasoning about agents know-hows. Even more, it encourages a

the representation of know-how, which captures the beliefs about actions and procedures, has to be taken into account when modeling rational agents. Using the notion of know-how as introduced by Singh we formalize and implement a concrete and usable agent architecture that supports and benefits from

Some groupware products support office jobs by providing cooperative functions such as workflow management. However, they cannot support documentation jobs because the jobs need individual creativity which is difficult to share. This paper proposes a ‘Know-how Sharing Agent’ which allows individual

-known system of Rao and Georgeff. In addition, agents have available to them a library of plans, representing their `know-how': procedural knowledge about how to achieve their intentions. These plans are, in effect, programs, that specify how a group of agents can work in parallel to achieve certain

, addition of new agents, and incorporation of existing applications. It should also be transparent; users should not need to know where their requests are being executed, nor how. Finally, in order to facilitate the user's delegating tasks to agents, the architecture will be served byamultimodal

New challenges appeared recently about rangelands in France, because of a new social concern about their environmental value. In this paper, the role and use of these lands are described from an historical perspective (19-20th c), to better understand how the increasing technology and market co