Component-based middleware frameworks that support distributed agent societies have proven to be very useful in a variety of domains. Such frameworks must include support for both ...
John A. Zinky, Richard Shapiro, Sarah Siracuse, To...
In traditional information systems, the user interface is controlled by one single application. In distributed systems, several distributed components may want to influence the ap...
This paper presents a formal and executable approach to capture the behaviour of parties involved in a negotiation. A party is modeled as a negotiating agent composed of a communi...
Marlon Dumas, Guido Governatori, Arthur H. M. ter ...
Abstract. Failures are unavoidable in many circumstances. For example, an agent may fail at some point to perform a task in a dynamic environment. Robust systems typically have mec...
Brokers are used in many multi-agent systems for locating agents, for routing and sharing information, for managing the system, and for legal purposes, as independent third partie...
Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque