This publication summarizes research on the the design and implementation of liberalized version of existing truth-finding protocols for argumentation, such as the standard two-a...
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...
This paper unifies two recent strands of research in multiagent system design. One, commitments are widely recognized as capturing important aspects of interactions among agents,...
The problem considered in the present article is optimal design of network topologies in multi-agent systems in order to make communication on the network as efficient as possible ...
Abstract. This paper presents a framework that enables autonomous agents to dynamically select the mechanism they employ in order to coordinate their inter-related activities. Adop...
Rachel A. Bourne, Cora B. Excelente-Toledo, Nichol...