Abstract. Communication between agents needs to be flexible enough to encompass together a variety of different aspects such as, conformance to society protocols, private tactics ...
We take the position that large-scale distributed systems are better understood, at all levels, when locality is taken into account. When communication and mobility are clearly se...
An agent communication protocol specifies the “rules of encounter” governing a dialogue between agents in a multiagent system. In non-cooperative interactions (such as negoti...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
Despite the acceptance of FIPA-ACL as a standard for agent communications, there exist a gap between its specification and infrastructures to support interactions among agents. The...
Agent technologies are now being considered for automating tasks in e-commerce applications. However, conventional software agents with predefined functions, but without the abilit...
Qiming Chen, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu, Martin L...