Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are difficult to program and usually run statically-installed software limiting its flexibility. To address this, we developed Agilla, a new midd...
Abstract Multi-agent systems (MASs) is an area of distributed artificial intelligence that emphasizes the joint behaviors of agents with some degree of autonomy and the complexiti...
Pieter Jan't Hoen, Karl Tuyls, Liviu Panait, Sean ...
In this paper, we argue that allowing self-interested agents to activate social institutions during run-time can improve the robustness (i.e., stability, cooperation or fairness) ...
Protocols enable unambiguous, smooth interactions among agents. Commitments among agents are a powerful means of developing protocols. Commitments enable flexible execution of pro...
maintain awareness of its environment for a long period of time. Additionally, knowledge-intensive agents must be engineered such that their knowledge can be easily updated as envi...