Organizational notions such as roles, norms (e.g., obligations and permissions), and services are increasingly viewed as natural concepts to manage the complexity of software devel...
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholij...
Replication is widely used to improve fault tolerance in distributed and multi-agent systems. In this paper, we present a different point of view on replication in multi-agent syst...
In last years, trust and reputation has been gaining increasing interest in multi-agent systems (MAS). To address this issue, we propose in this paper a maintenance-based trust me...
In this paper we describe MASQ (Multi-Agent Systems based on Quadrants), a model that defines four perspectives over an agent-based interaction according to two axes: internal/ex...
The aim of our research is to provide a unified model for the composition and management of consumer care services. We identify design, composition, distribution and management as...
Kumari Wickramasinghe, Christian Guttmann, Michael...