Abstract. UML class diagrams (UCDs) are the de-facto standard formalism for the analysis and design of information systems. By adopting formal language techniques to capture constr...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Yazmin Ang&eac...
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are an emerging technology, yet, in continuous dynamic behavior, much work has been done to attempt to generate a formal method to design a contro...
The need for negotiation in multi-agent systems stems from the requirement for agents to solve the problems posed by their interdependence upon one another. Negotiation provides a...
Simon Parsons, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings
for reasoning about abstract models of protocols. The work on informal methods attempts to discern common patterns in the extensive record of flawed protocols, and to formulate po...
Commitments model important aspects of agent interactions, especially those arising in e-business. A small number of patterns of commitments accommodate a variety of realistic int...