This article presents the research work that exploits using XML (Extensible Markup Language) to represent different types of information in mobile agent systems, including agent c...
Verification that agent communication protocols have desirable properties or do not have undesirable properties is an important issue in agent systems where agents intend to commu...
Katie Atkinson, Roderic A. Girle, Peter McBurney, ...
We present an argumentation-based approach to contract negotiation amongst agents. Contracts are simply viewed as abstract transactions of items between a buyer agent and a seller ...
Agents that operate in a multi-agent system can benefit significantly from adapting to other agents while interacting with them. This work presents a general architecture for a ...
There have been numerous attempts to provide a standardized definition of a computational agent, but little consensus has emerged. We propose a simple test for agenthood that can ...