Systems that act autonomously in the environment have to be able to integrate three basic behaviors: planning, execution, and learning. Planning involves describing a set of action...
We present an algorithm for partial order reduction in the context of a countable universe of deterministic actions, of which finitely many are enabled at any given state. This mea...
According to the taxonomy for agent activity, proposed by V. Parunak, a collaboration is an interaction between agents of a multi-agent system (MAS) whereby the agents explicitly ...
A norm-governed agent takes social norms into account in its practical reasoning. Such norms characterise its role within a specific organisational context. By adopting a role, th...
A Complex Adaptive System (CAS) is a network of communicating, intelligent agents where each agent adapts its behavior in order to collaborate with other agents to achieve overall...