We address the problem of standardising the semantics of agent communication. The diversity of existing approaches suggests that no single agent communication language can satisfa...
Increasingly systems are composed of parts: software components, and the interaction mechanisms (connectors) that enable them to communicate. When assembling systems from independ...
This paper investigates how formal techniques can be used for the analysis and verification of hybrid systems [1,5,7,16] -- systems involving both discrete and continuous behavior....
The most natural way of thinking about negotiation is probably a situation whereby each of the parties involved initially make a proposal that is particularly beneficial to themse...
In this paper, we describe the unique security issues involved in healthcare domains. These have been addressed to the needs of the HealthAgents project. In the proposed approach,...