Abstract. W3C's OWL has gained wide acceptance in the agent community and it has already been used in many agent applications which we think syntactically. By taking advantage...
Protocols are modular abstractions that capture patterns of interaction among agents. The compelling vision behind protocols is to enable creating customized interactions by refi...
A serious shortcoming of many Description Logic based knowledge representation systems is the inadequacy of their query languages. In this paper we present a novel technique that ...
Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
We present and implement an infrastructure for automating the negotiation of business contracts. Underlying our system is a declarative language for both (1) fully-specified, exe...
Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. ...