A referral system is a multiagent system whose member agents are capable of giving and following referrals. The specific cases of interest arise where each agent has a user. The ...
This paper introduces AgentSpeak(F), a variation of the BDI logic programming language AgentSpeak(L) intended to permit the model-theoretic verification of multi-agent systems. A...
Rafael H. Bordini, Michael Fisher, Carmen Pardavil...
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
This paper describes a system and annotation language, MECA, for checking security rules. MECA is expressive and designed for checking real systems. It provides a variety of pract...
Junfeng Yang, Ted Kremenek, Yichen Xie, Dawson R. ...
We study the communication complexity of the set disjointness problem in the general multi-party model. For t players, each holding a subset of a universe of size n, we establish ...