This presents a study in which a high level abstract architecture was used to design open multi-agent systems and virtual organizations that offer services with temporal constraint...
The ability to communicate is one of the salient properties of agents. Although a number of agent communication languages (ACLs) have been developed, obtaining a suitable formal se...
Modularity and rigor are two key elements for multi-agent technology. Hong Zhu's multi-agent system (MAS) development method provides proper language facilities supporting mo...
Multiagent systems (MAS) research is well established yet there is little development of agent technology in industry. It has been suggested that this is due, in part, to the unav...
The concept of a social norm is used in multi-agent systems to specify behaviours required of agents interacting in a given social context. We describe a method for specifying soci...