ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
In multi-agent system literature, the role concept is getting ngly researched to provide an abstraction to scope beliefs, norms, goals of agents and to shape relationships of the a...
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Artificial agents, people, institutes and societies all have the ability to make decisions. Decision making as a research area therefore involves a broad spectrum of sciences, ran...
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Motivated by demands from the commercial world for software systems that can assist in the reorganisation of processes for the purpose of reducing business complexity, we...
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Replication is widely used to improve fault tolerance in distributed and multi-agent systems. In this paper, we present a different point of view on replication in multi-agent syst...
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Autonomous software agents provide a promising solution to the needs of decentralised networked systems, able to adapt their behaviour in a complex and dynamically changing environ...
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Expressing contractual agreements electronically potentially allows agents to automatically perform functions surrounding contract use: establishment, fulfilment, renegotiation et...
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Usually, MAS design and implementation involves a coordination model that structures agent interactions and an infrastructure in charge of enacting it. We propose the ter...
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. We consider adaptation in open systems, i.e. systems without global objects or common objectives. There are three related issues: how to make the degrees of freedom (DoFs...
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
In this paper, after a short review of the dichotomous view of norms usually seen as either regular behaviors or obligations issued by authorities, norms are proposed to be defined...
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Multi-agent systems are viewed as consisting of individual agents whose behaviors are regulated by organization artifacts. This abstract presents a programming language, which is d...