Abstract. This is a position paper reporting the motivations, the starting point and the guidelines that characterise the MERCURIO5 project proposal, submitted to MIUR PRIN 20096 ....
Much work in AI deals with the selection of proper actions in a given (known or unknown) environment. However, the way to select a proper action when facing other agents is quite ...
Social and intentional behaviours appear as two main components of the agent paradigm. Methods of conventional software engineering do not seem to be appropriate to gain a full kno...
A Multi-agent system (MAS) is an open distributed system of agents. The agents in a MAS may form certain specific groups, where agents in each group jointly engage in solving a s...
Agents with partial observability need to share information to achieve decentralised coordination. However, in resource-constrained systems, indiscriminate communication can creat...
Partha Sarathi Dutta, Claudia V. Goldman, Nicholas...