We investigate the problem of locally monitoring contract regulated behaviours in web services. We encode contract clauses in service specifications by using extended timed automat...
Alessio Lomuscio, Monika Solanki, Wojciech Penczek...
In systems of autonomous self-interested agents, in which agents' neighbourhoods are defined by their connections to others, cooperation can arise through observation of the ...
Virtual storytelling often uses a fixed, pre-scripted storyline, constraining the characters’ autonomy and behaviour. An agent-based approach provides possibilities of a narrati...
Abstract Complex systems call for a hierarchical description. Analogously, the engineering of non-trivial MASs (multiagent systems) requires principles and mechanisms for a multi-l...
Ambra Molesini, Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, ...
People frequently complain that it is too difficult to figure out how to get computers to do what they want. However, with a computer system that actually tries to understand what...