We introduce the Consensual N-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma as a large-scale dilemma. We then present a framework for cooperative consensus formation in large-scale MAS under the N-P...
One specific problem in wide-area distributed computing environment is effective management of the vast amount of resources that are made available within the grid environment. Th...
Ghazala Shaheen, Muhammad Usman Malik, Zohair Ihsa...
In this paper we describe a channel-based exogenous coordination language, called Reo, and discuss its application to multi-agent systems. Reo supports a specific notion of compo...
The work we present here is mainly concerned with interagent communication, MAS communication protocols and, in particular, software tools and environments to define, experiment a...
Abstract. While agents and environments are two intimately connected concepts, most approaches for multi-agent development focus on the agent-specific part of the system, whereas ...