This paper presents approaches for building, managing, and evaluating consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent h...
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault...
Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael P. Georgeff,...
Abstract Complex systems call for a hierarchical description. Analogously, the engineering of non-trivial MASs (multiagent systems) requires principles and mechanisms for a multi-l...
Ambra Molesini, Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, ...
Discovering and studying emergent phenomena are among the most important activities in social research. Replicating this phenomenon in "the lab" using simulation is an i...
Techniques that support effective communication during teamwork processes are of particular importance. Psychological study shows that an effective team often can anticipate infor...
Yu Zhang, Richard A. Volz, Thomas R. Ioerger, John...