Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p. 24-40
DOI: 10.1007/11734680_3
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Dynamic and resource-constrained environments raise interesting is- sues for partnership formation and multi-agent systems. In a scenario in which agents interact with each other to exchange services, if computational resources are limited, agents cannot always accept a request, and may take time to find avail- able partners to delegate their needed services. Several approaches are available to solve this problem, which we explore through an experimental evaluation in this paper. In particular, we provide a computational implementation of Piaget's exchange-values theory, and compare its performance against alternatives.