It is possible to define conversation policies, such as communication or dialogue protocols, that are based strictly on what messages and, respectively, what performatives may foll...
Recent advances in both the testing and verification of software based on formal specifications of the system to be built have reached a point where the ideas can be applied in a p...
George Eleftherakis, Petros Kefalas, Anna Sotiriad...
The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm seems able to support effectively distributed applications in open and heterogeneous environments, and application areas such as ecommerce appear to...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montana...
Mobile agent systems have many attractive features including asynchrony, openness, dynamicity and anonymity, which makes them indispensable in designing complex modern application...
Combinatorial auctions have been studied by the multiagent systems community for some time, since these auctions are an effective mechanism for resource allocation when agents are...