Behavioral software contracts express properties concerning the flow of values across component (modules, classes, etc) interfaces. These properties are often beyond the reach of ...
Abstract. A strong research emphasis is being given towards regulating interoperable multi-agent environments through norms and institutions. We are concerned with environments in ...
AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract A design and pilot implementation of a system, called InterProcs, supporting electronic contracting is presented. A key concept in the design of th...
Abstract. A framework for Multi Agent Data Mining (MADM) is described. The framework comprises a collection of agents cooperating to address given data mining tasks. The fundamenta...
Santhana Chaimontree, Katie Atkinson, Frans Coenen
In this paper, we describe the Architecture Description Language (ADL) that we are defining for the design of agentbased systems. This aims at filing the gap between the analysis ...