We propose a logic-based rendition of electronic institutions – these are means to specify open agent organisations. We employ a simple notation based on first-order logic and s...
Abstract. As a window into the subject, we recount some of the history (and geography) of two mature, challenging, partially open, partially closed problems in the theory of rewrit...
One of the key arguments for mobile agent systems is the flexible usage of groups of agents. However, none of the existing mobile agent systems supports agent groups. In this pap...
The telecommunications environment is changing its face towards an open market of information services where the vision is "information any time, at any place, in any form&qu...
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a multi-agent model for plan synthesis in which the production of a global shared plan is based on a promising unified framework based on...