Middleware for smart items can facilitate the coordinated execution of distributed components for early data processing. These components can be deployed to different nodes in the...
This paper presents an argumentation-based approach to deliberation, the process by which two or more agents reach a consensus on a course of action. The kind of deliberation we a...
Abstract. We build a class-based selection preference sub-model to incorporate external semantic knowledge from two Chinese electronic semantic dictionaries. This sub-model is comb...
An exciting trend in enterprise computing lies in the integration of applications across an organisation and even between organisations. This allows the provision of services by a...
Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield, Dean Kuo, Julian Jan...
Autonomy is regarded as a crucial notion in multi-agent systems and several researchers have tried to identify what are the agent's parts that give it an autonomous character....