There is increasing interplay between humans and artificial intelligent (AI) entities in online
environments. With the growing autonomy and sophistication of these AI systems, the hybrid …

En aquesta tesi investiguem algorismes de negociació en dominis amb funcions d'utilitat no
linials i en els quals l'espai d'acords possibles és tan gran que l'ús de cerca exhaustiva és …

Many challenges in today's society can be tackled by distributed open systems. This is
particularly true for domains that are commonly perceived under the umbrella of smart cities …

This paper is an invitation to carry out science and engineering for a class of socio-technical
systems where individuals¿ who may be human or artificial entities¿ engage in purposeful …

The notion of validity fulfils a crucial role in legal theory. In the emerging Web 3.0, Semantic
Web languages, legal ontologies, and normative multi-agent systems (nMAS) are designed …

This paper is an invitation to carry out science and engineering for a class of socio-technical
systems where individuals—who may be human or artificial entities—engage in purposeful …

Normative capabilities in multi-agent systems (MAS) can be represented within agents,
separately as institutions, or a blend of the two. This paper addresses how to extend the …

The notion of electronic institution draws inspiration from traditional institutions. Both can be
seen as “coordination artefacts that serve as an interface between the internal decision …

Agent technology is an emerging software paradigm for develo** open, distributed and
heterogeneous complex system. There is a need for different software to communicate with …

The nature of computing paradigm has shifted from centralized, static and closed to
distributed, dynamic and open due to the advent and popularity of Internet. Multi-agent …