The specification and monitoring of conditional obligations and prohibitions with starting points and deadlines is a crucial aspect in the design of open interaction systems. In th...
Abstract. The description of public resources such as web site contents, web services or data ļ¬les in open peer-to-peer networks using some formal framework like RDF usually reļ¬...
The regulation of multiagent systems may be approached from diļ¬erent stand-points. In this paper I will take the perspective of using a certain type of devices, electronic instit...
Building open distributed systems is an even more challenging task than building distributed systems, as their components are loosely synchronised, can move, become disconnected, ...
Interoperability has been broadly conceptualized as the ability of agents to work together. In open systems, the interoperability of agents is an important concern. A common way of...