Information Technology has changed our life and society already to such an extent that even our visions cannot exist without technology and its applications. And this change is acc...
Electronic institutions (EIs) have been proposed as a means of regulating open agent societies. EIs define the rules of the game in agent societies by fixing what agents are permit...
In this paper, we study a simple means for coordinating teams of simple agents. In particular, we study ant robots and how they can cover terrain once or repeatedly by leaving mar...
The social laws paradigm represents an important approach to the co-ordination of behaviour in multi-agent systems. In this paper we examine the relationship between social laws an...
Web services have been proposed as means to provide more convenient access to computation services. An issue that still must be dealt with is what to do if there is no web service...