Open MASs can be extremely dynamic due to heterogeneous agents that migrate among them to obtain resources or services not found locally. In order to prevent malicious actions and...
Building open distributed systems is an even more challenging task than building distributed systems, as their components are loosely synchronised, can move, become disconnected, ...
Multi-agent systems where the members are developed by parties with competing interests, and where there is no access to a member’s internal state, are often classified as ‘o...
Web services have emerged as a new paradigm that supports loosely-coupled distributed systems in service discovery and service execution. Next generation web services will evolve ...
The concepts of autonomous agent and multi-agent system appropriate levels of abstraction for the design, implementation and simulation of many complex, distributed computational s...
Michael Luck, Peter McBurney, Jorge Gonzalez-Palac...