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WOLLIC
2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
On the Role of the Complementation Rule for Data Dependencies over Incomplete Relations
Recently, an axiomatization for functional dependencies (FDs) and multivalued dependencies (MVDs) has been established where arbitrary attributes can be specified as NOT NULL. Tha...
Flavio Ferrarotti, Sven Hartmann, Sebastian Link
AOSE
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Lifecycle for Models of Large Multi-agent Systems
Two key issues in building multi-agent systems concern their scalability and engineering open systems. We offer solutions to these potential problems by introducing a lifecycle fo...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, David Stuart Robertson...
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AOSE
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Bringing Coherence to Agent Conversations
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer
CP
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Temporal Concurrent Constraint Programming Calculus
Abstract The tcc model is a formalism for reactive concurrent constraint programming. In this paper we propose a model of temporal concurrent constraint programming which adds to t...
Catuscia Palamidessi, Frank D. Valencia
EPIA
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Dynamic Evaluation of Coordination Mechanisms for Autonomous Agents
Abstract. This paper presents a formal framework within which autonomous agents can dynamically select and apply different mechanisms to coordinate their interactions with one ano...
Rachel A. Bourne, Karen Shoop, Nicholas R. Jenning...