Several concerns in the development of multi-agent systems (MASs) cannot be represented in a modular fashion. In general, they inherently affect several system modules and cannot b...
Multi-agent domains consisting of teams of agents that need to collaborate in an adversarial environment offer challengingresearch opportunities. In this article, we introduce per...
We present negotiation schemes for efficient role adoption that enhance utility in organizations. In one scheme, local utility computations determine role adoption. In the second ...
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
The paper describes some innovations related to the ongoing work on the GSA prototype, an integrated information retrieval agent. In order to improve the original system effective...
Giovambattista Ianni, Francesco Ricca, Francesco C...