Environment is an essential part of any multi-agent system (MAS), since it provides the surrounding conditions for agents to exist. For some sort of systems, the environment can be...
Rodrigo B. de Paes, Gustavo R. de Carvalho, Ma&iac...
Social commitments are developed for multi-agent systems according to the current practice in law regarding contract formation and breach. Deafeasible commitments are used to provi...
This paper outlines an aspect-oriented approach to support separation and modularization of crosscutting concerns in multi-agent systems. Aspects as abstractions to capture social ...
Carla T. L. L. Silva, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Jo...
The ability to coordinate effectively is critical for agents to accomplish their goals in a multi-agent system. A number of researchers have modeled the coordination problem for m...
Detecting and preventing the adversarial action of an agent with respect to the community of agents can be a serious issue in the design of open multi-agent systems. This task is ...
This paper presents complexity results for model checking concurrent programs against temporal-epistemic formulae. We apply these results to evaluate the complexity of verifying p...
We present an OBDD-based methodology for verifying time, knowledge, and strategies in multi-agent systems specified by the formalism of interpreted systems. To this end, we invest...
There are many methodological approaches for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, each one focusing on some features of multi-agent systems, but leaving others underdefined. For t...
We present an approach to the problem of verification of epistemic properties of multi-agent systems by means of symbolic model checking. In particular, it is shown how to extend ...
Magdalena Kacprzak, Alessio Lomuscio, Wojciech Pen...
This paper generalises the theory of agent refinement from [1] to multi-agent systems in the presence of new coordination mechanisms extended with real time. The generalisation is ...
Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi D...