Lack of time and capital for software testing is an oft encountered problem in most organizations. The plethora of possible test cases for each software component makes software t...
Sunitha Ramanujam, Hany F. El Yamany, Miriam A. M....
In this paper we introduce a model for direct communication in situated multi-agent systems. Direct communication is typically associated with cognitive agents, where the informat...
This work compares and contrasts two component frameworks: (1) the web-centric Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework and (2) the FIPA-compliant multi-agent system (MAS). FIPA...
While the sociality of software agents drives toward the definition of institutions for multi agent systems, their autonomy requires that such institutions be ruled by appropriate...
Communication in heterogeneous multi agent systems is hampered by the lack of shared ontologies. Ontology negotiation offers an integrated approach that enables agents to gradual...
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Frank Dig...