A Multi-linked negotiation problem occurs when an agent needs to negotiate with multiple other agents about different subjects (tasks, conflicts, or resource requirements), and th...
Normative environments are used to regulate multiagent interactions. In business encounters, agents representing business entities make contracts including norms that prescribe wh...
Perhaps the most successful agent architectures, and certainly the best known, are those based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework. Despite the wealth of research that ...
Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. The components of a WS are active and persistent computational entities that have autonomous ...
Hong Zhu, Bin Zhou, XinJun Mao, Lijun Shan, David ...
This paper proposes a formal framework which offers an external representation of conversations between conversational agents. Using this formalism allows us: (1) to represent the ...