The analogy between types and contracts raises the question of how many features of static type systems can be expressed as dynamic contracts. An important feature missing in prio...
Arjun Guha, Jacob Matthews, Robert Bruce Findler, ...
We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variet...
Erik S. Steinmetz, John Collins, Scott Jamison, Ra...
Abstract. Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed...
A multi-agent system is a useful approach for the complex systems. One of the important concepts of multi-agent systems is cooperativeness, or interactions. However, existing lang...
This paper presents a generic meta-model of multi-agent systems based on organizational concepts such as groups, roles and structures. This model, called AALAADIN, defines a very ...