Despite the relevance of the concept of role for conceptual modeling and agent-orientation, there is still in the literature a lack of consensus on the meaning of this notion and h...
Planning under uncertainty is an important and challenging problem in multiagent systems. Multiagent Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (MPOMDPs) provide a powerful fr...
An instance-oriented security mechanism is proposed to deal with security threats in building a general-purpose mobile agent middleware in Grid environment. The proposed solution i...
Abstract. In this paper, we describe a scenario for a distributed marketplace on the Web where resource discovery agents find out about resources that may want to join the marketpl...
Asuman Dogac, Ilker Durusoy, Sena Nural Arpinar, E...
The need for negotiation in multi-agent systems stems from the requirement for agents to solve the problems posed by their interdependence upon one another. Negotiation provides a...
Simon Parsons, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings