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 ...
This paper addresses a novel coordination problem for distributed agents in a discrete-event setting. We introduce and study a predicate coordination problem as the problem of dist...
Swarming agents often operate in benign geographic topologies that let them explore alternative trajectories with minor variations that the agent dynamics then amplify for improve...
Sven A. Brueckner, Theodore C. Belding, Robert Bis...
This paper describes our preliminary analysis on the induction of communication protocols. Our work has two goals: (i) to recognize rules (i.e. protocols) from the communicative b...
We study the complexity of a multilateral negotiation framework where autonomous agents agree on a sequence of deals to exchange sets of discrete resources in order to both further...