—In highly dynamic environments like academy and industry it is becoming essential the need of efficient systems for resources organization and discovery. In this paper we descr...
We argue that artificial intelligence systems must be able to manipulate their own internal representations automatically in order to deal with an infinitely complex and ever chan...
Mediation is the process of decomposing a task into subtasks, finding agents suitable for these subtasks and negotiating with agents to obtain commitments to execute these subtas...
Cooperation among autonomous agents involves an inherent degree of uncertainty. Agents determine for themselves when to initiate cooperation or to assist others, when to rescind c...
Ever since the seminal work of Searle, two components of interaction protocols have been identified: constitutive rules, defining the meaning of actions and regulative rules, defin...