Social influences play an important part in the actions that an individual agent may perform within a multi-agent society. However, the incomplete knowledge and the diverse and co...
Nishan C. Karunatillake, Nicholas R. Jennings, Iya...
Teams that are geographically distributed often share information both in real-time and asynchronously. When such sharing is through groupware, change conflicts can arise when peo...
Mark S. Hancock, John David Miller, Saul Greenberg...
We explore a rule-based formalisation for contracts: the rules capture conditional norms, that is, they describe situations arising during the enactment of a multi-agent system, an...
Unsatisfiable concepts are a major cause for inconsistencies in Description Logics knowledge bases. Popular methods for repairing such concepts aim to remove or rewrite axioms to r...
Inconsistencies may arise in the course of specification of systems, and it is now recognised that they cannot be forbidden. Recent work has concentrated on enabling requirements ...