The deployment of multi-agent systems demands for justified confidence into their behaviour, both with respect to correct results of computations and with respect to timeliness t...
The agent metaphor has shown its usefulness for modelling as well as implementing complex and dynamic applications. Although a number of agent applications has been successfully re...
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Dirk Bade, Karl-H...
This contribution defines a metrics and proposes a solution for the problem of agents inaccessibility in multi-agent systems. We define the stand-in pattern for knowledge mainten...
Abstract. In this paper we propose a new role for the agent metaphor in the definition of the organizational structure of multiagent systems. The agent metaphor is extended to cons...
Overhearing is an indirect interaction type that enacts agents to listen to direct interactions among other agents without taking explicit part in the exchanges. In this paper, we ...
The general aim of our work is to provide tools, methods and models to adaptive multi-agent systems designers. These systems consist in several interacting agents and have to optim...
Abstract. For over a decade, agent research has shown that social commitments support the definition of open multiagent systems by capturing the responsibilities that agents contr...
Philippe Pasquier, Roberto A. Flores, Brahim Chaib...
In this paper, we present the latest version of our dialogue games based agent communication language (DIAGAL) which allows the agents to manipulate the public layer of social comm...
Philippe Pasquier, Mathieu Bergeron, Brahim Chaib-...