Virtual Enterprises are a major trend within the B2B scenario. Technological support towards enabling this cooperation model includes the multi-agent systems paradigm. In this pape...
A fundamental difficulty faced by cooperative multiagent systems is to find how to efficiently coordinate agents. There are three fundamental processes to solve the coordination pr...
CHOPRA, AMIT KHUSHWANT. Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines. (Under the direction of Dr. Munindar P. Singh). Protocols in open and dynamic multiagent systems cannot be modeled via fo...
This paper introduces a methodology to help the programmer in the transition from a set of desired global properties expressed as an equation-based model (EBM) that a Multi-Agent ...
Virtual Institutions are Virtual Worlds with normative regulation of participants’ interactions. This paradigm is based on normative multiagent systems and is technologically su...