paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision-making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through t...
Pietro Panzarasa, Nicholas R. Jennings, Timothy J....
Model transformations support a model-driven design by providing an c translation of abstract models into more concrete ones, and eventually program code. Crucial to a successful a...
Gregor Engels, Anneke Kleppe, Arend Rensink, Maria...
According to the taxonomy for agent activity, proposed by V. Parunak, a collaboration is an interaction between agents of a multi-agent system (MAS) whereby the agents explicitly ...
Current web services are largely based on a synchronous request-response model that uses the Simple Object Access Protocol SOAP. Next-generation telecommunication networks, on the...
Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Franco Mazzan...
We define a logic EpCTL for reasoning about the evolution of probabilistic systems. System states correspond to probability distributions over classical states and the system evo...
Pedro Baltazar, Paulo Mateus, Rajagopal Nagarajan,...