Abstract--Norm-enforcement models applied in human societies may serve as an inspiration for the design of multi-agent systems. Models for norm-enforcement in multi-agent systems o...
Brigitte Burgemeestre, Joris Hulstijn, Yao-Hua Tan
Abstract—We present a new approach to providing soft realtime guarantees for Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents. We define what it means for BDI agents to operate in real time...
Konstantin Vikhorev, Natasha Alechina, Brian Logan
As the field of agent-based systems continues to expand rapidly, one of the most significant problems lies in being able to compare and evaluate the relative benefits and disad...
We describe an agent-based situation-aware survivable architecture for the discovery and composition of web services. Our architecture provides for proofs that guaranteethe consis...
As autonomous robots become increasingly adept at performing simple tasks like moving from place to place and picking up and delivering objects, it is becoming apparent that an im...
David Franklin, Roger E. Kahn, Michael J. Swain, R...