The behaviours of autonomous agents may deviate from those deemed to be for the good of the societal systems of which they are a part. Norms have therefore been proposed as a mean...
Sanjay Modgil, Noura Faci, Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, ...
One of the guiding principles of the Grid is local (site) autonomy. Resource owners maintain control over their resources even when those resources are part of a larger Grid. In o...
Jun Feng, Lingling Cui, Glenn S. Wasson, Marty Hum...
Software systems are increasingly being built as compositions of reusable artifacts (components, frameworks, toolkits, plug-ins, APIs, etc) that have non-trivial usage constraints...
This paper presents the ARTS (Agent-oriented Robust Transactional System) model, which applies transaction concepts to provide agent developers with high-level support for agent s...