While there are many useful models of agents and multi-agent systems, they are typically defined in an informal way and applied in an ad-hoc fashion. Consequently, multi-agent sys...
Vincent Hilaire, Olivier Simonin, Abder Koukam, Ja...
Auctions are useful mechanisms for allocating items (goods, tasks, resources, etc.) in multiagent systems. The bulk of auction theory assumes that the bidders know their own valua...
In a reputation-based trust management system an entity’s behaviour determines its reputation which in turn affects other entities interaction with it. We present a mathematical...
Business process modeling and design, which has attracted much attention in recent years, emphasizes mainly graphical representation, usually without an underlying theory. The lack...
Learning general truths from the observation of simple domains and, further, learning how to use this knowledge are essential capabilities for any intelligent agent to understand ...
Paulo Santos, Derek R. Magee, Anthony G. Cohn, Dav...