Abstract. Current approaches to multi-agent interaction involve specifying protocols as sets of possible interactions, and hard-coding decision mechanisms into agent programs in or...
Formal dialectic systems have been suggested as a means to model inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. The formal dialectic systems of Hamblin are practical models for ...
We identify different levels of conformance to a protocol (weak, exhaustive, and robust conformance) and show how conformance may be either checked a priori or enforced at runtim...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
What distinguishes e-commerce from ordinary commerce? What distinguishes it from distributed computation? In this paper we propose a performative theory of e-commerce, drawing on ...
Abstract. A data link protocol developed and used by Philips Electronics is modeled and veri ed using I/O automata theory. Correctness is computer-checked with the Coq proof develo...
Leen Helmink, M. P. A. Sellink, Frits W. Vaandrage...