While there has been much work on developing frameworks and models of norms and normative systems, consideration of the impact of norms on the practical reasoning of agents has at...
BDI agent languages provide a useful abstraction for complex systems comprised of interactive autonomous entities, but they have been used mostly in the context of single agents w...
Abstract. Applying multi-agent systems in real world scenarios requires several essential research questions to be answered. Agents have to perceive their environment in order to t...
Frans C. A. Groen, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Jelle R. ...
This article describes an ontological model of norms. The basic assumption is that a substantial part of a legal system is grounded on the concept of agency. Since a legal system a...
We present a principled and efficient planning algorithm for cooperative multiagent dynamic systems. A striking feature of our method is that the coordination and communication be...