We extend the logical model of agency known as the KGP model, to support agents with normative concepts, based on the roles an agent plays and the obligations and prohibitions tha...
Abstract. In this paper, we study the operational semantics of agent communication languages.We develop a basic multi-agent programming language for systems of concurrently operati...
Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van de...
Interaction protocols enable agents to communicate with each other effectively. Whereas several approaches exist to specify interaction protocols, none of them has design tools th...
Co-ordination is the glue that binds the activities of autonomous problem-solving agents together into a functional whole. Co-ordination mechanisms for distributed problem-solving ...
Abstract. We study the integration of two prominent fields of logicbased AI: action formalisms and non-monotonic reasoning. The resulting framework allows an agent employing an ac...