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ACOM
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Flexible Conversations Using Social Commitments and a Performatives Hierarchy
In this research, we re-arrange FIPA’s ACL performatives to form a subsumption lattice (ontology) and apply a theory of social commitments to achieve a simplified and observable...
Robert C. Kremer, Roberto A. Flores
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Formalization of a voting protocol for virtual organizations
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
POLICY
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Ponder Policy Specification Language
The Ponder language provides a common means of specifying security policies that map onto various access control implementation mechanisms for firewalls, operating systems, databas...
Nicodemos Damianou, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Mor...
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Norms of Conversation in a Framework for Agent Communication Languages
Abstract. In open and heterogeneous environments offered by the Internet, where agents are designed by different vendors, the development of standards for agent communication nee...
Rodrigo Agerri
FECS
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Prolog as the First Programming Language
The adoption of logic programming in an introductory course on computer programming offers several rewards. The higher al level of this programming paradigm guides students to an ...
Arthur Fleck