The work we present here is mainly concerned with interagent communication, MAS communication protocols and, in particular, software tools and environments to define, experiment a...
We present the Hermes approach for goal-oriented interaction which includes a methodology for designing goal-based interactions and a process for mapping design artefacts to an ex...
Peer-to-Peer (p2p), as an emerging technology, is exerting huge influence on various application scenarios. Meanwhile, agents, assisting applications in traditional paradigm with...
Mobile agents have been proposed as a solution to the problem of the management of increasingly heterogeneous networks. However, the proposed solutions often ignore the value of l...
There is a wide agreement on the use of norms in order to specify the expected behaviour of agents in open MAS. However, in highly regulated domains, where norms dictate what can a...