In multi-agent communities, trust is required when agents hold different beliefs or conflicting goals. We present a framework for decomposing agent reputation into competence—...
Computational experiments are reported involving the concept of foreknowledge, an agent’s direct, unmediated and accurate, but possibly incomplete, awareness of its future includ...
Abstract. In most agent programming languages in practice a programmer is committed to the use of a single knowledge representation technology. In this paper we argue this is not n...
Abstract. Although several approaches to the semantics of agent communication have been proposed, none of them is really suitable for dealing with agent autonomy, which is a decisi...
Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Wei&sz...
In multi-agent environments where agents independently generate and execute plans to satisfy their goals, the resulting plans may sometimes overlap. In this paper, we propose a co...