Recent years have seen an increasing interest of multiagent system research in employing the theory of argumentation for the development of communication protocols. While signific...
Michael Rovatsos, Iyad Rahwan, Felix A. Fischer, G...
Recent progress in Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOP) has led to a range of algorithms now available which differ in their amount of problem centralization. Probl...
The ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the major challenges that underlie Grid ...
Jigar Patel, W. T. Luke Teacy, Nicholas R. Jenning...
Efficient coordination among large numbers of heterogeneous agents promises to revolutionize the way in which some complex tasks, such as responding to urban disasters can be perf...
Yang Xu, Paul Scerri, Bin Yu, Steven Okamoto, Mich...
Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...