This paper is concerned with the problem of obtaining predictable interactions between groups of agents in open environments when individual agents do not expose their bdi logic. ...
Nardine Osman, David Robertson, Christopher Walton
Scalability of software engineering methods can be improved by application of the methods to individual components instead of complete systems. This is, however, possible only if ...
The increasing ubiquity of mobile computing devices has made mobile ad hoc networks an everyday occurrence. Applications in these networks are commonly structured as a logical netw...
The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
Abstract. Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. The emergence of such conve...