Communication is essential in multi-agent systems, since it allows agents to share knowledge and to coordinate. However, in open multi-agent systems, autonomous and heterogeneous a...
Observation is becoming a crucial issue in the engineering of today's systems: the common practice for dealing with their complexity is to encapsulate their subcomponents abs...
In this paper we introduce a new formalism to represent multi-agent systems where resources can be exchanged among different agents by maximizing the utility of the agents conformi...
This paper presents modeling concepts and mechanisms of the Agent Modeling Language (AML) to model social aspects of multiagent systems. The modeling of structural, behavioral as w...
This chapter provides a brief survey of argumentation in multi-agent systems. It is not only brief, but rather idiosyncratic, and focuses on the areas of research that most interes...