The increased pervasiveness of mobile devices like cell phones, PDAs, and laptops draws attention to the need for coordination among these networked devices. The very nature of the...
Abstract. This paper presents a framework that integrates three aspects of agency: planning, for proactive behaviour, negotiation, for social behaviour and resource achievement, an...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Torroni, Neophytos Demetri...
Business processes are often likely to undergo drastic changes and hence the workflow systems that model, simulate and enact these processes should support the monitoring and cont...
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communication using the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation ...
R. Scott Cost, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xi...
Stigmergy has been adopted in MAS (multi-agent systems) and in other fields as a technique for realising forms of emergent coordination in societies composed by a large amount of a...
Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli, Lu...