Storage techniques and queries over XML databases are being widely studied. Most works store XML documents in traditional DBMSs in order to take advantage of a well established te...
Whenever XML data must be shared by heterogeneous applications, transformations between different applicationspecific XML formats are necessary. The state-of-the-art method transf...
While multi-agent systems seem to provide a good basis for building complex software systems, this paper points out some of the drawbacks of classical “agent centered” multi-ag...
The problem investigated in this paper is the distribution of goals addressed to a group of rational agents. Those agents are characterized by their ability (i.e. what they can do...
We analyse scenarios in which self-interested agents negotiate with each other in order to agree on deals to exchange resources. We consider two variants of the framework, one whe...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...