Communication is the key feature of Multi-agent Systems. The interactions among components of a system may take many distinct forms of increasing complexity such as in auctions, n...
This paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) approach for modelling social behaviours in children’s play. The children, the dynamics of their play, and the playground are mo...
Formal sequentialization is introduced as a rewriting process for the reduction of parallelism and internal communication statements of distributed imperative programs. It constru...
Miquel Bertran, Francesc-Xavier Babot, August Clim...
WSBPEL [2] opens up the possibility of applying a range of formal techniques to the verification of Web service behaviors from two points of view: constraints between activities w...
Decentralized MDPs provide a powerful formal framework for planning in multi-agent systems, but the complexity of the model limits its usefulness. We study in this paper a class o...
Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor R. Lesse...