Procedural norms are instrumental norms addressed to agents playing a role in the normative system, for example to motivate these role playing agents to recognize violations or to...
Coordination within decentralized agent groups frequently requires reaching global consensus, but typical hierarchical approaches to reaching such decisions can be complex, slow, ...
When agents need to interact in order to solve some (possibly common) problem, resolving potential conflicts beforehand is often preferred to coordination during execution. Agents...
This paper describes a multi-agent system, GraniteNights, modelled on the Agentcities project “evening agent” scenario. GraniteNights allows a user to plan an evening’s enter...
Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Stuart Chalmers, Peter Ed...
Large systems of agents deployed in a real-world environment face threats to their problem solving performance that are independent of the complexity of the problem or the charact...