Abstract. One of the main challenges for the successful application of agentbased systems in mobile and embedded devices is enabling application developers to reconcile the needs o...
Societies need patterned behavior to exist. Large-scale agent societies may contain a diversity of agents, each with differing abilities and functionalities. When such an agent sys...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...
Medical ontologies are developed to solve problems such as the demand for reusing, sharing and transmitting data. The unambiguous communication of complex and detailed medical conc...
—The import of the notion of institution in the design of MASs requires to develop formal and efficient methods for modeling the interaction between agents’ behaviour and norm...