Systems often exhibit hierarchical structures and multiple levels of abstraction, and MultiAgent Systems, even if they have proved their adequacy to model such systems, mains in t...
Sebastian Rodriguez, Nicolas Gaud, Vincent Hilaire...
Abstract. Support for new forms of organization and social interaction requires understanding the influence of structure on behavior. Goal dependencies indicate some relationship b...
ed Abstract Ontologies play an important role in inter-agent communication, by providing the definitions of the vocabularies used by agents to describe the world [4]. An agent can ...
To investigate the interdependencies existing among deontic positions (like powers and obligations) and the ontology defined by an institution, we have proposed to model instituti...
When developing BDI agent-based systems, some design patterns such as incompatible intentions, multiple strategies, intention decomposition, etc. would be very useful for specifyi...
Vito Morreale, Giuseppe Francaviglia, Fabio Centin...
Artifacts for Multi-Agent Systems have been defined as runtime entities providing some kind of function or service that agents can fruitfully exploit to achieve their individual o...
Fault tolerance is an important property of large-scale multiagent systems as the failure rate grows with both the number of the hosts and deployed agents, and the duration of com...