The open-source framework AKIRA integrates Multiagent and Pandemonium elements. We describe the main components of the framework, showing that the hybrid nature of the Agents, hav...
Giovanni Pezzulo, Gianguglielmo Calvi, Rino Falcon...
Groups of collaborative agents within organizations need to create group awareness in order to act as a single entity. The notion of collective belief, which has been used extensi...
Inspired by computational linguistic approaches to annotate the structures that occur in human dialogue, this paper describes a technique which encodes these structures as transfo...
Jarred McGinnis, David Robertson, Christopher Walt...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
We analyze the notion of organizational structure in multiagent systems and explain the precise added value and the effects of such organizational structure on the involved agents...
Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Mehdi Dastani, Lamb&e...
Although mental states have its own place in the definition of message semantics, social commitments have emerged as a complementing element to circumvent the limitations of usin...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...
The problem of providing tools to support legally valid negotiations between agents is becoming more and more critical. Agents are supposed to perform crucial tasks autonomously; ...
Roberto Bianchi, Andrea Fontana, Federico Bergenti
Abstract Complex systems call for a hierarchical description. Analogously, the engineering of non-trivial MASs (multiagent systems) requires principles and mechanisms for a multi-l...
Ambra Molesini, Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, ...
This research aims at studying the effects of exchanging information during the learning process in Multiagent Systems. The concept of advice-exchange, introduced in (Nunes and Ol...
FreeWill+ is a framework that aims at integrating various animation techniques for controlling human-like characters. With heterogeneity and multi-layering as its main design prin...