The ACORN architecture is a multi-agent based system deployed across networks which provides a means for augmenting community-based systems of communication between people. In the...
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
Abstract—We present a new approach to providing soft realtime guarantees for Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents. We define what it means for BDI agents to operate in real time...
Konstantin Vikhorev, Natasha Alechina, Brian Logan
As the field of agent-based systems continues to expand rapidly, one of the most significant problems lies in being able to compare and evaluate the relative benefits and disad...
We describe an agent-based situation-aware survivable architecture for the discovery and composition of web services. Our architecture provides for proofs that guaranteethe consis...