A variety of business interactions in open environments can be captured in terms of creation and manipulation of social commitments among the agents. Such interactions include B2B ...
Interaction protocols enable agents to communicate with each other effectively. Whereas several approaches exist to specify interaction protocols, none of them has design tools t...
Interactions between agents in an open system such as the Internet require a significant degree of flexibility. A crucial aspect of the development of such methods is the notion o...
Engineeringdesign applications require the support of long transactions in cooperative environments, The problem of the existing copy/update/merge approaches is that thepartial ef...
CHOPRA, AMIT KHUSHWANT. Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines. (Under the direction of Dr. Munindar P. Singh). Protocols in open and dynamic multiagent systems cannot be modeled via fo...