A helpful abstraction of a group of agents is a set of interacting roles, or sets of normative behaviors, that the agents can assume. An important characteristic of real-world agen...
James Odell, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, ...
We identify different levels of conformance to a protocol (weak, exhaustive, and robust conformance) and show how conformance may be either checked a priori or enforced at runtim...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...