Taha and Nielsen have developed a multi-stage calculus λα with a sound type system using the notion of environment classifiers. They are special identifiers, with which code fr...
Our previous research presents a methodology of cooperative problem solving for BDI systems, based on a complete formal theory. This covers both a static part, defining individua...
Marcin Dziubinski, Rineke Verbrugge, Barbara Dunin...
paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision-making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through t...
Pietro Panzarasa, Nicholas R. Jennings, Timothy J....
Social laws have proved to be a powerful and theoretically elegant framework for coordination in multi-agent systems. Most existing models of social laws assume that a designer is...
Formal analyses of social action for Distributed A.I. (DAI) have focussed, almost exclusively, on scenarios in which participating agents have a joint intention to act. While such ...