Verification that agent communication protocols have desirable properties or do not have undesirable properties is an important issue in agent systems where agents intend to commu...
Katie Atkinson, Roderic A. Girle, Peter McBurney, ...
This paper addresses the issue of emergence of robust cooperation among self-interested agents interacting in N-player social dilemma games. A series of graphs are created each ex...
Assistance to people suffering from cognitive deficiencies in a smart home raises complex issues. Plan recognition is one of them. We propose a formal framework for the recognition...
Bruno Bouchard, Sylvain Giroux, Abdenour Bouzouane
Interface automata provide a formalism capturing the high level interactions between software components. Checking compatibility, and other safety properties, in an automata-based ...
Michael Emmi, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Corina S. Pa...
The importance of metadata has been broadly referred in the last years, mainly in the field of data warehousing and decision support systems. Contemporarily, in the adjacent field...