An agent communication protocol specifies the “rules of encounter” governing a dialogue between agents in a multiagent system. In non-cooperative interactions (such as negoti...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
Abstract. A Web Service (WS) is a type of component specifically conceived for distributed machine-to-machine interaction. Interoperability between WSs involves both data and messa...
Antonia Bertolino, Lars Frantzen, Andrea Polini, J...
Computer systems increasingly carry out tasks in mixed networks, that is in group settings in which they interact both with other computer systems and with people. Participants in...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Avi Pf...
In many dynamic open systems, agents have to interact with one another to achieve their goals. Here, agents may be self-interested and when trusted to perform an action for another...
W. T. Luke Teacy, Jigar Patel, Nicholas R. Jenning...
Fault tolerance schemes for mobile agents to survive agent server crash failures are complex since developers normally have no control over remote agent servers. Some solutions mo...