o address the need for canonical abstraction, we've adopted software engineering's concept of signatures--a technique for defining software patterns or invariant procedur...
While multi-agent systems seem to provide a good basis for building complex software systems, this paper points out some of the drawbacks of classical “agent centered” multi-ag...
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) based E-mail system is the most popular application in today’s Internet world, but there are many dark clouds at the edge of the sunshin...
This study concerns virtual environments for training in operational conditions. The principal developed idea is that these environments are heterogeneous and open multi-agent sys...
Cedric Buche, Ronan Querrec, Pierre De Loor, Pierr...
The paper presents a multi-agent system that comprises a society of self-interested agents that use argumentation-based negotiation to reach agreements regarding cooperation and go...