— In a service oriented environment such as the realm of document services, the conventional notion is that of a multi-function device interacting individually with customer appl...
Nathan Gnanasambandam, Naveen Sharma, Soundar R. T...
—“Autonomic systems” merge advancements in the field of multi-agent software design, dynamic analysis, and decentralized control in order to assist designers in constructing...
The coalition formation process, in which a number of independent, autonomous agents come together to act as a collective, is an important form of interaction in multiagent system...
Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the DAI community for several years. Papers about cooperation 6,45 , negotiation 33 , distributed planning 5 , and coalit...
Abstract. In the last years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in multi-agent systems’ research. Recent applications of MAS enforce the need o...