Current technologies permit people to make use of various systems able to fulfill most of their needs while being at home. However, their use is often not intuitive and they are al...
This paper presents an approach to analyse the behaviours of teams of autonomous agents who work together to achieve a common goal. The agents in a team are evolved together using...
When merging belief sets from different agents, the result is normally a consistent belief set in which the inconsistency between the original sources is not represented. As proba...
We introduce the Consensual N-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma as a large-scale dilemma. We then present a framework for cooperative consensus formation in large-scale MAS under the N-P...
A rational agent adopts (or changes) its goals when new information (beliefs) becomes available or its desires (e.g., tasks it is supposed to carry out) change. In this paper we pr...