We present and evaluate a method for estimating the relevance and calibrating the values of parameters of an evolutionary algorithm. The method provides an information theoretic m...
Safe exchange is a key issue in multiagent systems, especially in electronic transactions where nondelivery is a major problem. In this paper we present a unified framework for mo...
History based models, introduced by Parikh and Ramanujam, provide a natural mathematical model of social interactive situations. These models offer a ”low level” description ...
The emerging standards for the specification of Web Services support the publication of the static interfaces of the operations they may execute. However, little attention is paid...
Ever since the seminal work of Searle, two components of interaction protocols have been identified: constitutive rules, defining the meaning of actions and regulative rules, defin...