Trust and reputation are central to effective interactions in open multi-agent systems in which agents, that are owned by a variety of stakeholders, can enter and leave the system ...
Trung Dong Huynh, Nicholas R. Jennings, Nigel R. S...
Many important and useful applications for software agents require multiple agents on a network that communicate with each other. Such agents must find each other and perform a u...
The ability to respond sensibly to changing and conflicting beliefs is an integral part of intelligent agency. To this end, we outline the design and implementation of a Distribute...
Benedita Malheiro, Nicholas R. Jennings, Eugenio O...
In multi-agent systems, agents need to share information in order to make good decisions. Who does what in order to achieve this matters a lot. The assignment of responsibility in...
Tim Harbers, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Pedro A. Szekely
In open multi-agent systems (MASs) we cannot assume agents to be developed in a centralized fashion. Recent proposals of commitmentbased communication frameworks aim at increasing ...