Abstract. This article considers the link between theory and practice in agentoriented programming. We begin by rigorously defining a new formal specification language for autono...
- Adaptive technologies are based on the self-modifying property of some systems, which give their users a very powerful and convenient facility for expressing and handling complex...
A variety of business relationships in open settings can be understood in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the participants. These include B2C and B2B c...
Protocols specifying business interactions among autonomous parties enable reuse and promote interoperability. A protocol is specified from a global viewpoint, but enacted in a di...
A team of agents is jointly able to achieve a goal if despite any incomplete knowledge they may have about the world or each other, they still know enough to be able to get to a g...
Hojjat Ghaderi, Hector J. Levesque, Yves Lesp&eacu...