There were always two separated methods to make agent coordination: individual-local balance perspective and individualsociety balance perspective. The first method only considere...
While software is becoming decomposed in more and more finegrained entities, the interactions amongst those become of major importance. While methodologies for building such compon...
Independent from specific application domains, similar requirements can be identified regarding information needs during daily work. For coping with generality on the one hand an...
Communication is essential in multi-agent systems, since it allows agents to share knowledge and to coordinate. However, in open multi-agent systems, autonomous and heterogeneous a...
Abstract. In this paper we address a model of self interested information agents competing to perform tasks. The agents are situated in an uncertain environment while different tas...