This paper introduces a methodology to help the programmer in the transition from a set of desired global properties expressed as an equation-based model (EBM) that a Multi-Agent ...
Virtual Institutions are Virtual Worlds with normative regulation of participants’ interactions. This paradigm is based on normative multiagent systems and is technologically su...
Interconnected service providers constitute a highly dynamic, complex, distributed environment. Multi-agent system design-methodologies have been trying to address this kind of env...
The development of software products has become a highly cooperative and distributed activity involving working groups at geographically distinct places. These groups show an incr...
Societal behaviour can be studied at a causal level by perturbing a stable multi-agent model with new microscopic behaviours and observing the statistical response over an ensembl...