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KBS
2007
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14 years 10 months ago
A reusable commitment management service using Semantic Web technology
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
Alun D. Preece, Stuart Chalmers, Craig McKenzie
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Multiagent commitment alignment
Commitments provide a basis for understanding interactions in multiagent systems. Successful interoperation relies upon the interacting parties being aligned with respect to their...
Amit K. Chopra, Munindar P. Singh
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MASA
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Formal Conversations for the Contract Net Protocol
In this paper we present a fairly complex example of how the social model for agent conversations based on social commitments we have developed in the past formally supports the im...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer
AAAI
2008
15 years 14 days ago
An Architecture and Formalism for Handling Modular Ontologies
The goal of my ongoing work is to provide an architecture for developing and manipulating modular ontologies in such a way that each ontology module can plug into or unplug from a...
Faezeh Ensan
ER
2010
Springer
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14 years 8 months ago
Modelling Functional Requirements in Spatial Design
Abstract. We demonstrate the manner in which high-level design requirements, e.g., as they correspond to the commonsensical conceptualisation of expert designers, may be formally s...
Mehul Bhatt, Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz, Frank Dylla