This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
The problem of task assignment naturally arises in multiagent multitask systems, where an optimal matching of agents and tasks is sought. This problem is a combinatorial optimizati...
Recent work in communications and business modeling emphasizes a commitment-based view of interaction. By abstracting away from implementation-level details, commitments can poten...
One of the most important issues to deal with in peerto-peer networks is how to disseminate information. In this paper, we use a completely new approach to solving the information...
Ajoy Kumar Datta, Maria Gradinariu, Michel Raynal,...
We introduce the formal notion of an interaction interface. Its purpose is to specify formally the interaction between two or more components that co-operate as subsystems of a di...