Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) present important limitations that constrain their usage in current organisations. The fundamental reason is the lack of integration in the c...
In most multiagent systems with communicating agents, the agents have the luxury of using reliable, multi-step negotiation protocols. They can do so primarily when communication i...
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
Abstract. In a process calculus, an agent guarantees responsive usage of a channel name r if a communication along r is guaranteed to eventually take place. Responsiveness is impor...
An argumentation based negotiation model is supported by information theory. Argumentative dialogues change the models of agents with respect to ongoing relationships between them...