We propose a transaction model that provides a framework for transactions to cooperate without sacrificing serializability as a notion of correctness. Cooperation does not depend ...
One approach to moderating the expected behaviour of agents in open societies is the use of explicit languages for defining norms, conditional commitments and/or social expectation...
Commitment protocols formalize interactions among autonomous, heterogeneous agents, leaving the agents’ local policies unspecified. This paper studies the problem of agents ena...
Social commitments have been increasingly used to model inter-agent dependencies and normative aspects of multiagent systems such as the semantics of agent communication. However,...
Abstract. Message semantics are traditionally defined in terms of mental states, which is a trend that is criticized for assuming the sincerity and cooperativeness of agents. To c...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...