In this paper, we argue that allowing self-interested agents to activate social institutions during run-time can improve the robustness (i.e., stability, cooperation or fairness) ...
Agent communication languages defined using joint intention theory have enjoyed a long research history. A number of performatives have been defined and refined in this literature ...
This paper examines the decentralized formation of groups within a peer-to-peer multi-agent system. More specifically, it frames group formation as a clustering problem, and exami...
Elth Ogston, Benno J. Overeinder, Maarten van Stee...
There has been substantial progress with formal models for sequential decision making by individual agents using the Markov decision process (MDP). However, similar treatment of m...
Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor R. Lesse...
Formal theories of multi-agent systems require a rich ontology for modelling the dynamics of social behaviour. In this paper a formal analysis of the social behaviour of individua...