Gaining wide acceptance for the use of agents in industry requires both relating it to the nearest antecedent technology (objectoriented software development) and using artifacts t...
In the paper we study the dynamics of roles played by agents in multiagent systems. We capture role dynamics in terms of four operation performed by agents: ‘enactment’, ‘dea...
Mehdi Dastani, Birna van Riemsdijk, Joris Hulstijn...
Abstract. Software agent technology has attracted much attention for developing various distributed systems, composed of autonomous agents interacting with one another using partic...
—Epidemic protocols assume that information of a random set of nodes is provided at each protocol round. By definition, the random set needs to be chosen uniformly and randomly ...
Jin Sun, Paul J. Weber, Byung Kyu Choi, Roger M. K...
Abstract. Multiagent cooperative negotiation is a promising technique for modeling and controlling complex systems. Effective and flexible cooperative negotiations are especially...