Multi Agent Systems (MAS) are often used as a software substrate in creating smart spaces. Many of the solutions already developed within the MAS community are applicable in the do...
This paper describes the design and evaluation of SouthamptonSCM, the runner-up in the 2005 International Trading Agent Supply Chain Management Competition (TAC SCM). In particula...
Minghua He, Alex Rogers, Xudong Luo, Nicholas R. J...
In multi-agent system literature, the role concept is getting ngly researched to provide an abstraction to scope beliefs, norms, goals of agents and to shape relationships of the a...
— In this paper we study the rational balance between local and global policies in virtual communities of agents. To study this problem we use a logical framework for modelling o...
Coordinating the activities of distributed autonomous entities challenges traditional approaches to distributed coordination and calls for new paradigms and supporting middleware....