In many dynamic open systems, agents have to interact with one another to achieve their goals. Here, agents may be self-interested and when trusted to perform an action for another...
W. T. Luke Teacy, Jigar Patel, Nicholas R. Jenning...
Abstract--Recent works proposed the adoption of a natureinspired approach of chemistry for implementing service architectures suitable for pervasive applications [34]. In particula...
Elena Nardini, Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Andre...
Abstract--We believe that agent-oriented programming languages and multi-agent programming technologies provide an effective level of abstraction for tackling the design and progra...
Holland's Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems largely dealt with how systems, comprised of many self-interested entities, can and should adapt as a whole. This semin...
Robert E. Smith, Claudio Bonacina, Paul E. Kearney...
This paper introduces a methodology to help the programmer in the transition from a set of desired global properties expressed as an equation-based model (EBM) that a Multi-Agent ...