Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
In this paper, we propose a representation of excuses in the context of multiagent systems. We distinguish five classes of excuses, taking as starting point both jurisprudential an...
Guido Boella, Jan Broersen, Leendert van der Torre...
Mobile computer technologies are increasingly being appropriated and used to facilitate people’s social life outside the work domain. Addressing this emerging domain of use, we ...
Designing realistic multi-agent systems is a complex process, which involves specifying not only the functionality of individual agents, but also the authority relationships and l...
Anthony Karageorgos, Simon G. Thompson, Nikolay Me...
In architecture companies, work is very often performed by several individuals. From conceptual design to the construction of a final product, the object passes through many hands,...
Daniel Pinho, Adriana Santarosa Vivacqua, Sé...