Increasingly, software engineering involves open systems consisting of autonomous and
heterogeneous participants or agents who carry out loosely coupled interactions …

Multiagent social commitments provide a principled basis for agent interactions, and serve
as a natural tool to resolve design ambiguities. Indeed, they have been the subject of …

We consider in this paper how to leverage heterogeneous mobile computing capability for
efficient processing of real-time range-monitoring queries. In our environment, each mobile …

The mechanisms of emergence and evolution of collective behaviours in dynamical Multi-
Agent Systems (MAS) of multiple interacting agents, with diverse behavioral strategies in co …

Upon starting a collective endeavour, it is important to understand your partners' preferences
and how strongly they commit to a common goal. Establishing a prior commitment or …

There is an increasing interest in the use of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) to work in teams
with humans. To achieve successful outcomes for these heterogeneous teams, many of the …

Communication protocols are central to engineering decentralized multiagent systems.
Modern protocol languages are typically formal and address aspects of decentralization …

We address the problem of engineering a sociotechnical system (STS) with respect to its
stakeholders' requirements. We motivate a two-tier STS conception composed of a technical …

Ever since the seminal work of Searle, two components of interaction protocols have been
identified: constitutive rules, defining the meaning of actions and regulative rules, defining …

This paper seeks to combine two largely independent threads of multiagent systems
research—agent specification and protocols. We specify agents in terms of goal models (as …