With the rapid expansion of the Internet, the implementation of agent technology in electronic commerce (e-commerce) becomes very popular, which provides a promising field for the...
Conversations are a useful means of structuring communicative interactions among agents. The value of a conversation-based approach is largely determined by the conversational mod...
R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis L...
Verification and compliance testing are required if agents are to be delegated responsibility for legally binding contracts, for example in electronic markets. This paper describes...
This paper addresses two closely related aspects of subjective information. First, no two agents necessarily see the same thing when they observe the same object. Second, no two a...
Abstract--We believe that agent-oriented programming languages and multi-agent programming technologies provide an effective level of abstraction for tackling the design and progra...