In the eld of automated reasoning, one of the most challenging (even if, perhaps, somewhat overlooked) problems thus far has been to develop a means of discerning, from amongst al...
In this research, we re-arrange FIPA’s ACL performatives to form a subsumption lattice (ontology) and apply a theory of social commitments to achieve a simplified and observable...
Braess’s Paradox is the counterintuitive but well-known fact that removing edges from a network with “selfish routing” can decrease the latency incurred by traffic in an eq...
In recent years, the development of software in open source communities has attracted immense attention from research and practice. The idea of commercial quality, free software, ...
The possibility of building self-aware software fascinated computer scientist since the beginning of computer science. Research in AI, and in particular on software agents, agent s...