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ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Engineering Social Order
Social Order becomes a major problem in MAS and in computer mediated human interaction. After explaining the notions of Social Order and Social Control, I claim that there are mult...
Cristiano Castelfranchi
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Models of Coordination
While software is becoming decomposed in more and more finegrained entities, the interactions amongst those become of major importance. While methodologies for building such compon...
Robert Tolksdorf
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Context-Dependency in Internet-Agent Coordination
The design and development of Internet applications can take advantage of a paradigm based on autonomous and mobile agents. However, agent mobility introduces peculiar coordinatio...
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
From Analysis to Deployment: A Multi-agent Platform Survey
This paper presents a survey on multi-agent platforms, with a particular focus on methodology. It presents the four stages of the construction of a multi-agent system and derives f...
Pierre-Michel Ricordel, Yves Demazeau
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Exploiting UML in the Design of Multi-agent Systems
Abstract. Software engineering describes a system at different levels of abstraction. Agent-oriented software engineering introduces a new level, called the agent level, to allow t...
Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Combining Software Components and Mobile Agents
We present a first approach that combines the mobile agent and the compositional paradigms into a new agent-based compositional model. The aim of this work is to explore the capabi...
Mercedes Amor, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes,...
ECAIW
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Cognition, Sociability, and Constraints
This paper focuses on the challenge of building technical agents that act flexibly in modern computing and information environments. Flexibility is approached in terms of both cogn...
Gerhard Weiß
CIA
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Emergent Societies of Information Agents
In the near future, billions of entities will be connected to each other through the Internet. The current trend is that an increasingly number of entities, from smart personal dev...
Paul Davidsson
ATAL
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Survey of Agent-Oriented Methodologies
This article introduces the current agent-oriented methodologies. It discusseswhat approacheshave been followed (mainly extending existing objectoriented and knowledge engineering ...
Carlos Angel Iglesias, Mercedes Garijo, José...
AGENTCL
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Dialogue in Team Formation
The process of cooperative problem solving can be divided into four stages. First, finding potential team members, then forming a team followed by constructing a plan for that tea...
Frank Dignum, Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbru...