Pervasive personal communication technologies offer the potential for important social benefits for individual users, but also the potential for significant social difficulties an...
We address the problem of standardising the semantics of agent communication. The diversity of existing approaches suggests that no single agent communication language can satisfa...
The organizational architecture of the multi-agent systems and the structure of social knowledge that the members of the community administer are critical factors for assuring suc...
In most multiagent systems with communicating agents, the agents have the luxury of using reliable, multi-step negotiation protocols. They can do so primarily when communication i...
Coalition formation in social networks consisting of a graph of interdependent agents allows many choices of which task to select and with whom to partner in the social network. N...