Agents in an open system interact with each other based on (typically, published) protocols. An agent may, however, deviate from the protocol because of its internal policies. Such...
Adaptive Hypermedia Systems adjust the content to best suit users' personal characteristics, but rarely consider delivery performance. Performance issues are even more signifi...
Lejla Rovcanin, Cristina Hava Muntean, Gabriel-Mir...
There is a wide agreement on the use of norms in order to specify the expected behaviour of agents in open MAS. However, current norm formalisms focus on the declarative nature of ...
In Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, autonomy of agents is an important property. On one hand, it has to be favored to make the agents able to determine and adapt their own goal...
In the context of open distributed systems, the ability to coordinate the agents coupled with the possibility to control the actions they perform is important. As open systems nee...