ESAW
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. Current approaches to multi-agent interaction involve specifying protocols as sets of possible interactions, and hard-coding decision mechanisms into agent programs in or...
DALT
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. This paper is concerned with the problem of obtaining predictable interactions between groups of agents in open environments when individual agents do not expose their bd...
BIRTHDAY
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
The paper presents an approach to reasoning about Web services in a temporal action theory. Web services are described by specifying their interaction protocols in an action theory...
DALT
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
Computees are abstractions of the entities that populate global and open computing environments. The societies that they populate give an institutional meaning to their interaction...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
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...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
This paper presents an interaction protocol, built on top of FIPA ACL, allowing an agent to delegate a goal to another agent, in the form of a proposition that the delegating agen...
SEM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
The emergence of portable computers and wireless technologies has introduced new challenges for middleware. Mobility brings new requirements and is becoming a key characteristic. M...
PROMAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
The paper presents a way to robustly command a system of systems as a single entity. Instead of modeling each component system in isolation and then manually crafting interaction p...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Inspired by computational linguistic approaches to annotate the structures that occur in human dialogue, this paper describes a technique which encodes these structures as transfo...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
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...