Existing organisational centred multi-agent systems regulate agents' activities. However, population/environmental changes may lead to a poor fullment of system's goals,...
The organisational specification of a multi-agent system supports agents’ effectiveness in attaining their purpose, or prevent certain undesired behaviour from occurring. This r...
Huib Aldewereld, Virginia Dignum, Catholijn M. Jon...
This work compares and contrasts two component frameworks: (1) the web-centric Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework and (2) the FIPA-compliant multi-agent system (MAS). FIPA...
Abstract. Data integration, in the context of the web, faces new problems, due in particular to the heterogeneity of sources, to the fragmentation of the information and to the abs...
Sonia Bergamaschi, Pablo R. Fillottrani, Gionata G...
Reasoning about agent preferences on a set of alternatives, and the aggregation of such preferences into some social ranking is a fundamental issue in reasoning about multi-agent ...