This paper aims at proposing a general formal framework for dialogue between autonomous agents which are looking for a common agreement about a collective choice. The proposed set...
Communication is the key feature of Multi-agent Systems. The interactions among components of a system may take many distinct forms of increasing complexity such as in auctions, n...
Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
Moore’s Law is pushing us inevitably towards a world of pervasive, wireless, spontaneously networked computing devices. Whatever these devices do, they will have to talk to and n...
Abstract. E-institutions are envisioned as facilities on the Internet for heterogeneous software agents to perform their interactions and thus forming truly open agent systems. We ...
Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, John Thangarajah, L...