We identify different levels of conformance to a protocol (weak, exhaustive, and robust conformance) and show how conformance may be either checked a priori or enforced at runtim...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
Abstract. For over a decade, agent research has shown that social commitments support the definition of open multiagent systems by capturing the responsibilities that agents contr...
Philippe Pasquier, Roberto A. Flores, Brahim Chaib...
Although normative systems, or social laws, have proved to be a highly influential approach to coordination in multi-agent systems, the issue of compliance to such normative syste...
Most of the research inthe area of expert finding focuses on creating and maintaining centralized directories of experts' profiles, which users can search on demand. However, ...
In this paper we investigate the emergence of communication in competitive multi-agent systems. A competitive environment is created with two teams of agents competing in an explo...
Michelle McPartland, Stefano Nolfi, Hussein A. Abb...