Abstract. The Virtual Ecology Workbench (VEW) is a suite of utilities for creating, executing and analysing biological models of the ocean. At its core is a mathematical language a...
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
While the Belief, Desire, Intention (BDI) framework is one of the most influential and appealing approaches to rational agent architectures, a gulf often exists between the high-l...
Cooperation is the process of synchronization and exchanging useful knowledge between agents in multiagent systems. Since cooperation associates agents into a collaborative team t...