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ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Bootstrapping trust evaluations through stereotypes
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...
Chris Burnett, Timothy J. Norman, Katia P. Sycara
ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Towards an Architecture for Self-regulating Agents: A Case Study in International Trade
Abstract--Norm-enforcement models applied in human societies may serve as an inspiration for the design of multi-agent systems. Models for norm-enforcement in multi-agent systems o...
Brigitte Burgemeestre, Joris Hulstijn, Yao-Hua Tan
ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Towards a Logical Model of Social Agreement for Agent Societies
Multi-agent systems (MASs), comprised of autonomous entities with the aim to cooperate to reach a common goal, may be viewed as computational models of distributed complex systems ...
Emiliano Lorini, Mario Verdicchio
ICMAS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
This paper presents a generic meta-model of multi-agent systems based on organizational concepts such as groups, roles and structures. This model, called AALAADIN, defines a very ...
Jacques Ferber, Olivier Gutknecht
ISPE
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Application of data mining and intelligent agent technologies to concurrent engineering
: Software agent technology has matured enough to produce intelligent agents, which can be used to control a large number of concurrent engineering tasks. Multi-agent systems are c...
Pericles A. Mitkas, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Dionisi...
EUMAS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
OWL-S for Describing Artifacts
Artifacts for Multi-Agent Systems have been defined as runtime entities providing some kind of function or service that agents can fruitfully exploit to achieve their individual o...
Rossella Rubino, Ambra Molesini, Enrico Denti
EUMAS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
DimaX: A Fault-Tolerant Multi-Agent Platform
Fault tolerance is an important property of large-scale multiagent systems as the failure rate grows with both the number of the hosts and deployed agents, and the duration of com...
Nora Faci, Zahia Guessoum, Olivier Marin
CLIMA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Weighted Multi Dimensional Logic Programs
Abstract. We introduce a logical framework suitable to formalize structures of epistemic agents. Such a framework is based on the notion of weighted directed acyclic graphs (WDAGs)...
Pierangelo Dell'Acqua
AOIS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
ToothAgent: A Multi-agent System for Virtual Communities Support
People tend to form social networks within geographical areas. This can be explained by the fact that generally geographical localities correspond to common interests (e.g. studen...
Volha Bryl, Paolo Giorgini, Stefano Fante
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Spatially Distributed Normative Objects
Organisational structures for multi-agent systems are usually defined independently of any spatial and temporal structure. Therefore, when the multi-agent system is situated in a ...
Fabio Y. Okuyama, Rafael H. Bordini, Antônio...