Detecting and preventing the adversarial action of an agent with respect to the community of agents can be a serious issue in the design of open multi-agent systems. This task is ...
This paper proposes a general solution model using agent technology in order to solve two critical open issues in the course timetabling problem: application-specific issues and d...
Abstract. The notions of role and organization have often been emphasized in several agent oriented methodologies. Sadly, the notion of interaction has seldom been reified in these...
Philippe Mathieu, Jean-Christophe Routier, Yann Se...
Abstract. A fundamental and unanalysed logical concept is substitution. This seemingly innocuous operation -- substituting a variable for a term or valuating a variable to an eleme...
In open markets and within business and government organizations, selfish agents often face the question of what tasks to work on, and what partners to work with. Optimal solutions...