Abstract--We believe that agent-oriented programming languages and multi-agent programming technologies provide an effective level of abstraction for tackling the design and progra...
This chapter tackles the relation between declarative languages and multi-agent systems by following the dictates of the five Ws (and one H) that characterize investigations. The ...
The multiagent systems community has adopted game theory as a framework for the design of systems of multiple self-interested agents. For this to be effective, efficient algorith...
Observation is becoming a crucial issue in the engineering of today's systems: the common practice for dealing with their complexity is to encapsulate their subcomponents abs...
o address the need for canonical abstraction, we've adopted software engineering's concept of signatures--a technique for defining software patterns or invariant procedur...