Communication plays a fundamental role in multi-agents systems. One of the main issues in the design of agent interaction protocols is the verification that a given protocol implem...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Alberto Martell...
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...
Classically, cognition assumes that the underlying mechanisms of thinking are based on symbol manipulation processes. This assumption has several drawbacks, such as the issue of w...
—Networks of biological agents (for example, ants, bees, fish, birds) and complex man-made cyberphysical infrastructures (for example, the power grid, transportation networks) e...
Three distinct and interacting types of entities: people, software agents and e-markets are considered in this paper. These entities operate within Shaman, a proposed framework fo...
Gregory E. Kersten, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Hsiangchu L...