Abstract--In the network-centric computing era, applications often involve sets of autonomous, unpredictable, and possibly mobile entities interacting within open, dynamic, and pos...
Abstract--Recent works proposed the adoption of a natureinspired approach of chemistry for implementing service architectures suitable for pervasive applications [34]. In particula...
Elena Nardini, Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Andre...
Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Intelligent and autonomous software agents may engage in dialogue and argument with one another, and much recent research has considered protocols, architectures and frameworks for...
Enrico Oliva, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini, Peter ...
Stigmergy has been adopted in MAS (multi-agent systems) and in other fields as a technique for realising forms of emergent coordination in societies composed by a large amount of a...
Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli, Lu...