Abstract. In this paper, we describe how the AGORA multi-agent architecture is used to support Virtual Enterprises(VE). Software agents represent the partners of a VE, who collabor...
Abstract. Design patterns are templates of general solutions to commonlyoccurring problems in the analysis and design of software systems. In mature development processes, engineer...
a growing need to study abstract problems in distributed multi-agent systems in a systematic way, as well as to provide a qualitative mathematical framework in which to compare po...
In last years, trust and reputation has been gaining increasing interest in multi-agent systems (MAS). To address this issue, we propose in this paper a maintenance-based trust me...
The Goal Decomposition Tree model has been introduced in 2005 by Mermet et al. [9] to specify and verify the behaviour of an agent evolving in a dynamic environment. This model pr...