Agent-Oriented Programming (AOP) offers an alternative and radical approach to the development of information systems in various domains. However, one domain that AOP has only mini...
Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Michael J. O'Grady, Rem W. C...
Message oriented middleware (MOM) is a specific class of middleware that operates on the principles of message passing or message queuing. Existing MOM syste doesn't support ...
A major paradigm of modeling the decision making of autonomous agents is through behavior-based network models. The network consists of distributed behaviors that compete (or coop...
In the paper we study the dynamics of roles played by agents in multiagent systems. We capture role dynamics in terms of four operation performed by agents: ‘enactment’, ‘dea...
Mehdi Dastani, Birna van Riemsdijk, Joris Hulstijn...
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...