Recent work in communications and business modeling emphasizes a commitment-based view of interaction. By abstracting away from implementation-level details, commitments can poten...
We examine the design space of auction mechanisms and identify three core activities that structure this space. Formal parameters qualifying the performance core activities enable...
Peter R. Wurman, Michael P. Wellman, William E. Wa...
The concept of a social norm is used in multi-agent systems to specify behaviours required of agents interacting in a given social context. We describe a method for specifying soci...
Organizational notions such as roles, norms (e.g., obligations and permissions), and services are increasingly viewed as natural concepts to manage the complexity of software devel...
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholij...
Abstract. The Amorphous Computing project is aimed at developing programming methodologies for systems composed of vast numbers of locallyinteracting, identically-programmed agents...