Effective norms, emerging from sustained individual interactions over time, can complement societal rules and significantly enhance performance of individual agents and agent soci...
Generative programming and aspect-oriented software development have been proposed over the last years aiming at increasing maintainability and reusability of software systems. Wh...
Multi-agent systems can be viewed as object-oriented systems in which their entities show an autonomous behavior. If objects could acquire such skill in a flexible way, agents coul...
The Baldwin Effect is a very plausible, but unproven, biological theory concerning the power of learning to accelerate evolution. Simple computational models in the 1980’s gave...
We believe that communication in multi-agent system has two major meanings. One of them is to transmit one agent's observed information to the other. The other meaning is to ...