Process models capture tasks performed by agents together with their control flow. Building and analyzing such models is important but difficult in certain areas such as safety-cr...
Christophe Damas, Bernard Lambeau, Francois Roucou...
Mediation is the process of decomposing a task into subtasks, finding agents suitable for these subtasks and negotiating with agents to obtain commitments to execute these subtas...
Human team members often develop shared expectations to predict each other’s needs and coordinate their behaviors. In this paper the concept “Shared Belief Map” is proposed ...
Qualitative coalitional games (QCGs) were introduced as abstract formal models of goal-oriented cooperative systems. A QCG is a game in which each agent is assumed to have some goa...
Paul E. Dunne, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wooldri...
Multi-agent systems have become increasingly mature, but their appearance does not make the traditional OO approach obsolete. On the contrary, OO methodologies can benefit from th...