A key property of agents is that they are social, and hence the design of agent interactions is a crucial part of an agentoriented software engineering methodology. Agent interact...
In open multi-agent systems (MASs) we cannot assume agents to be developed in a centralized fashion. Recent proposals of commitmentbased communication frameworks aim at increasing ...
Commitment-based interaction protocols are a flexible way of representing the interaction of a set of agents, that are well-known and widely accepted by the research community. Nor...
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
This paper proposes the use of reliable group communication as a complement to traditional asynchronous messaging in multi-agent systems. In particular, the mechanism of message p...