Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
Cooperative multi-agent systems are ones in which several agents attempt, through their interaction, to jointly solve tasks or to maximize utility. Due to the interactions among t...
er than abstracting human behavior as work processes or tasks--functional idealizations of the work to be accomplished--we model people's activities comprehensively and chrono...
In this paper we introduce a new formalism to represent multi-agent systems where resources can be exchanged among different agents by maximizing the utility of the agents conformi...
Modularity and rigor are two key elements for multi-agent technology. Hong Zhu's multi-agent system (MAS) development method provides proper language facilities supporting mo...