Verification and compliance testing are required if agents are to be delegated responsibility for legally binding contracts, for example in electronic markets. This paper describes...
We present a combinatorial framework for the study of a natural class of distributed optimization problems that involve decisionmaking by a collection of n distributed agents in th...
At present several Java-based multi-agent platforms from different developers are available, but none of them fully supports agent mobility and communication inaccessibility. They...
Abstract. In open agent societies, communication protocols and strategies cannot be assumed to always match perfectly, because they are typically specified by different designers...
Ulrich Endriss, Wenjin Lu, Nicolas Maudet, Kostas ...
: This paper describes a protection scheme for mobile agents implemented on a Java environment. In this scheme, access to objects is controlled by means of software capabilities th...