We investigate the problem of locally monitoring contract regulated behaviours in web services. We encode contract clauses in service specifications by using extended timed automat...
Alessio Lomuscio, Monika Solanki, Wojciech Penczek...
Empirical analyses of complex games necessarily focus on a restricted set of strategies, and thus the value of empirical game models depends on effective methods for selectively e...
Patrick R. Jordan, L. Julian Schvartzman, Michael ...
Successful interaction between autonomous agents is contingent on those agents making decisions consistent with the expectations of their peers -- these expectations are based on ...
Virtual Actors are at the heart of Interactive Storytelling systems and in recent years multiple approaches have been described to specify their autonomous behaviour. One well kno...
In this paper, we propose a Quantified Distributed Constraint Optimization problem (QDCOP) that extends the framework of Distributed Constraint Optimization problems (DCOPs). DCOP...
We propose Path Disruption Games (PDGs), which consider collaboration between agents attempting stop an adversary from travelling from a source node to a target node in a graph. P...
In the multi-agent systems community, dependence theory and game theory are often presented as two alternative perspectives on the analysis of social interaction. Up till now no r...