The public nature of discussion in open source projects provides a valuable resource for understanding the mechanisms of open source software development. In this paper we explore...
Although there is a huge amount of work and valuable proposals about agent oriented software engineering, it seems that the paradigm has not been fully accepted yet by software ind...
The design and development of open multi-agent systems (MAS) is a key aspect in agent research. We advocate that they can be realised as electronic institutions. In this paper we ...
The development of autonomous multi-agent systems acting upon the interests of one or more users involves the elicitation of preferences of these users. In decision theory, models...
This paper, which is expository in nature, investigates and illustrates the idea of using cybernetic system modeling techniques to model a multi-agent community. The cybernetic co...