A network of cooperating agents must be able to reach rough consensus on a set of topics for cooperation. With highly heterogeneous agents, however, incommensurable measures and i...
Abstract. Similarly to institutions in human societies, Electronic Institutions (EI) provide structured frameworks for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) to regulate agents' interactio...
Agents are situated autonomous entities that perceive and act in their environment, and communicate with other agents. An agent usually starts a conversation by querying another a...
: Multi-Agent systems follow a highly abstract programming paradigm. of this abstraction level, behaviours of the participants are not always clearly reproducible for humans. In th...
The Independent LifeStyle AssistantTM (I.L.S.A.) is an agentbased monitoring and support system to help elderly people to live longer in their homes by reducing caregiver burden. ...
Karen Zita Haigh, Liana M. Kiff, Janet Myers, Vale...