Many practitioners view agent interaction protocols as rigid specifications that are defined a priori, and hard-code their agents with a set of protocols known at design time -- a...
Abstract. Current approaches to multi-agent interaction involve specifying protocols as sets of possible interactions, and hard-coding decision mechanisms into agent programs in or...
The ubiquity of our increasingly distributed and complex computing environments have necessitated the development of programming approaches and paradigms that can automatically man...
For an agent to intelligently use specifications of executable protocols, it is necessary that the agent can quickly and correctly assess the outcomes of that protocol if it is ex...
Abstract. In open agent societies, communication protocols and strategies cannot be assumed to always match perfectly, because they are typically specified by different designers...
Ulrich Endriss, Wenjin Lu, Nicolas Maudet, Kostas ...