In this paper, we present a software framework, called HDS (Heterogeneous Distributed System), that tries to simplify the realization of distributed applications and, in particular...
Trust and reputation are central to effective interactions in open multi-agent systems in which agents, that are owned by a variety of stakeholders, can enter and leave the system ...
Trung Dong Huynh, Nicholas R. Jennings, Nigel R. S...
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
Information quality assurance despite the existence of uncertainty about sources can be investigated in the context of soft security where an agent maintains trustworthiness evalu...
We address the topic of specifying multi-agent systems using the situation and state calculus (SSC). SSC has been proposed as an extension of the situation calculus to overcome so...