Interoperability has been broadly conceptualized as the ability of agents to work together. In open systems, the interoperability of agents is an important concern. A common way of...
Interaction protocols for multiagent systems have been described diagrammatically in an extension of UML called AUML (Agent UML). In this paper, we show how to translate these pro...
Protocols are modular abstractions that capture patterns of interaction among agents. The compelling vision behind protocols is to enable creating customized interactions by refi...
This work faces the problem of web service selection and composition, discussing the advantages that derive from the inclusion, in a web service declarative description, of the hi...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Alberto Martell...
This paper introduces a peer-to-peer agent framework for supporting autonomic applications in decentralized distributed environments. The framework provides agents to discover, co...