In open societies of agents, where agents are autonomous and heterogeneous, it is not realistic to assume that agents will always act so as to comply to interaction protocols. Thu...
Marco Alberti, Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma, Fed...
Formal specifications of protocol-oriented agent interactions have focused mainly on the semantics of the constituent agent communication language (ACL). We argue that a proper th...
This paper describes the design and implementation of the Mobile Objects and Agents (MOA) project at the Open Group Research Institute. MOA was designed to support migration, comm...
Dejan S. Milojicic, William LaForge, Deepika Chauh...
In this paper we extend the logic of violation proposed by [14] with time, more precisely, we temporalise that logic. The resulting system allows us to capture many subtleties of t...
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...