Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...
CHOPRA, AMIT KHUSHWANT. Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines. (Under the direction of Dr. Munindar P. Singh). Protocols in open and dynamic multiagent systems cannot be modeled via fo...
: This paper gives a definition of ASM refinement suitable for the verification that a protocol implements atomic transactions. We used this definition as the basis of the formal v...
Based on a revision of the common task understanding in model-based approaches a formal meta model is proposed which allows more expressive task descriptions. A task is considered ...
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents, and present a framework that uses this paradigm t...