In this paper, we present, through simulations of the coffee market of the state of Veracruz, how emergence of specialized roles in participatory simulations could be used to desi...
A multi-agent system can be analyzed and specified as an organization consisting of roles and their relations. The performance of an organization depends on many factors among whi...
Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Mehd...
This paper discusses issues related with learning resources brokerage systems. It introduces a market-based modeling approach and proposes a virtual market model design of a broke...
Multiagent systems for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises th...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
We distinguish between two main types of model: predictive and explanatory. It is argued (in the absence of models that predict on unseen data) that in order for a model to increas...