Ontologies in a web setting, particularly those used in a group context (such as a virtual community), need to be flexible and open to changes that reflect the evolution of knowle...
This paper proposes a new methodology for coordinating multi-robot teams in the execution of cooperative tasks. It is based on a dynamic role assignment mechanism in which the rob...
Luiz Chaimowicz, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos,...
In a secret sharing scheme based upon access structures, each group has an authorization and only the participants who stayed in an authorized access structure can recover the sec...
A helpful abstraction of a group of agents is a set of interacting roles, or sets of normative behaviors, that the agents can assume. An important characteristic of real-world agen...
James Odell, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, ...
We describe Dynamic UNITY, a new formalism for the specification of dynamic distributed systems based on the UNITY formalism. This formalism allows for the specification and pro...