Abstract. This paper surveys the state-of-the-art in developing multi-agent systems, and sets out to answer the questions: "what are the key current issues in developing multi...
Rafael H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Michael Winikoff
Abstract. In all user-centred agent-based applications, for instance in the context of ambient computing, the user agent is often faced to a difficult trade-off between the protect...
The research on exception handling in Multi-Agent Systems has produced some advanced models to deal with `exceptional situations'. The expression `agent exception' is how...
Abstract. We study the problem of checking the competence of communicative agents operating in a global society in order to receive and offer electronic services. Such a society wi...
The use of norms is a well-known technique of co-ordination in multi-agent systems (MAS) adopted from human societies. A normative position is the "social burden" associa...