Abstract. The paper contains an extension of a formal model of multiagent computing system developed in previous publications towards considering a more general system state. We pr...
Abstract. Software engineering describes a system at different levels of abstraction. Agent-oriented software engineering introduces a new level, called the agent level, to allow t...
In this paper, we improve and extend the MaSE methodology to bridge the gaps in this methodology. First, we propose an improvement process and, based on this process, we report th...
Shiva Vafadar, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh Barfouroush, Mo...
In multi-agent systems, agents need to share information in order to make good decisions. Who does what in order to achieve this matters a lot. The assignment of responsibility in...
Tim Harbers, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Pedro A. Szekely
This paper presents approaches for building, managing, and evaluating consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent h...