The concept of a social norm is used in multi-agent systems to specify behaviours required of agents interacting in a given social context. We describe a method for specifying soci...
Background: Clinical protocols and guidelines have been considered as a major means to ensure that cost-effective services are provided at the point of care. Recently, the comput...
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, David Robertson, Pa...
Matchmaking will be an important component of future agent and agent-like systems, such as the semantic web. Most research on matchmaking has been directed toward sophisticated ma...
This paper presents Limone, a new coordination model that facilitates rapid application development over ad hoc networks consisting of logically mobile agents and physically mobile...
There are many planning applications that require an agent to coordinate its activities with processes that change continuously over time. Several proposals have been made for com...