Software agents (SA) could be useful in forming buyers' groups since humans have considerable difficulty in finding Pareto-optimal deals (no buyer can be better without another being worse) in negotiation situations. Then what are the computational and economical performances of SA for a...

We show that adaptive measures undertaken by countries in the face of climate change, apart from directly reducing the damage caused by climate change, may also indirectly mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the stable size of international agreements on emission reductions....