What sort of democracies should open agent societies be? We present three normative models of democracy from political philosophy and consider their relevance for the engineering o...
Abstract. Governance means that specifications are enforced dynamically at application runtime. Governance framework is a technique to design and implement an extensible interactio...
Multi-agent systems where the members are developed by parties with competing interests, and where there is no access to a member’s internal state, are often classified as ‘o...
Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, ...
Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli