Negotiation is an important mechanism of coordination in multiagent systems. Contrary to early conceptualizations of negotiating agents, we believe that decisions regarding the neg...
In this paper, we argue that allowing self-interested agents to activate social institutions during run-time can improve the robustness (i.e., stability, cooperation or fairness) ...
Abstract. In this paper we investigate the specification and verification of information systems with an organizational structure. Such systems are modelled as a normative multia...
Leendert W. N. van der Torre, Joris Hulstijn, Mehd...
We continue the work initiated in [1–3], where the acceptance logic, a modal logic for modelling individual and collective acceptances was introduced. This logic is aimed at capt...
Mathijs de Boer, Andreas Herzig, Tiago De Lima, Em...
Abstract. Emergent behaviour (EB) is a common phenomenon in multi-agent systems (MAS) where autonomous agents perform certain actions with only limited access to local information ...