...sending
Agent communications use KQML primitives implemented using CORBA objects, see [1] for details.

...competitive
If the QPAs had not been engineered, a better solution would have been to use a second price auction.

...actions
The agents were set to take a random action with probability of .05. This keeps them from converging on a local maxima.

Jose M. Vidal
jmvidal@umich.edu
Tue Sep 30 14:35:40 EDT 1997