The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a key issue in multiagent systems. Due to its universality, voting has a central role among preference aggregation mechanisms. Votin...
Many industrial or research activities are so expensive that it is often benefitable for the involved agents to cofund the construction or the purchase of a common required resou...
A survivable agent system depends on the incorporation of many recovery features. However, the optimal use of these features requires the ability to assess the actual state of the...
Anthony R. Cassandra, Marian H. Nodine, Shilpa Bon...
This paper proposes a functional ontology of reputation for agents. The goal of this ontology is twofold. First, to put together the broad knowledge about reputation produced in s...
This paper focuses on a framework for representing a team plan and its projections on individual agents. The team plan is represented with a coloured Petri net. Using the implicit...
In this paper we propose the use of 3D Virtual Worlds for the visualization of Electronic Institutions. We show how 3D representation helps to open Electronic Institutions to huma...
Anton Bogdanovych, Helmut Berger, Carles Sierra, S...
In this paper we study the enforcement of social laws in artificial social systems using a control system. We define the enforceable social law problem as an extension of Tennen...
In this work we present the basic concepts for a dynamic plug-in-based software architecture using concepts from the Petri net-based MAS framework Mulan. By transferring the conce...
Lawrence Cabac, Michael Duvigneau, Daniel Moldt, H...
We define Trusted Kernel-based Coalition Formation as a novel extension to the traditional kernel-based coalition formation process which ensures agents choose the most reliable ...
Bastian Blankenburg, Rajdeep K. Dash, Sarvapali D....
The number of web pages available on Internet increases day after day, and consequently finding relevant information becomes more and more a hard task. However, when we consider ...
Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgi...