Researchers have been emphasizing the strong role that multi-agent systems can play progressively towards the design and implementation of complex autonomic systems. The aim of th...
Many multi-agent systems seek to reconcile two apparently inconsistent constraints. The system’s overall objective is defined at a global level. However, the agents have only lo...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John A. Saute...
Service-Oriented architectures and Service-Oriented Computing are the most recent approaches aiming at facilitating the design and development of applications on distributed system...
The calculus outlined in this paper provides a formal architectural framework for describing and reasoning about the properties of multi-user and mobile distributed interactive sys...
W. Greg Phillips, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Christoph...
Abstract. While agents and environments are two intimately connected concepts, most approaches for multi-agent development focus on the agent-specific part of the system, whereas ...