Contracts in the real world often rest upon a notion of responsibility, by which parties commit to the fulfilment of particular imperatives embedded in the contract. Responsibili...
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman, Chris Re...
Virtual Institutions are Virtual Worlds with normative regulation of participants’ interactions. This paradigm is based on normative multiagent systems and is technologically su...
This paper proposes a new type of database for collaborative work. Known types of databases for collaborative work are databases of shared data and those of process data. A new typ...
While argumentation-based negotiation has been accepted as a promising alternative to game-theoretic or heuristic based negotiation, no evidence has been provided to confirm this ...
Philippe Pasquier, Ramon Hollands, Frank Dignum, I...
This paper introduces a new design method for multi-agent systems (MAS) that incorporate logic programming. The DigitalFriend is an example of a MAS with a built-in logic language...
Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo, Leon Sterling, Ch...