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 ...
Parallel computing has become an important research field in the last years. The availability of hardware and the success of grid computing have motivated this interest. In this pa...
Many real-life organizations are hierarchies of largely autonomous, heterogeneous members (individuals or other organizations), often exhibiting rich policies. We restrict our att...
Agents in an organization need to coordinate their actions in order to reach the organizational goals. This research describes the relation between types of coordination and the au...
Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Me...
This paper discusses the need for an effective and practical BDI-based agentoriented programming language. It proposes an alternative by presenting the syntax and semantics of a ...