Many researchers have demonstrated that the organizational design employed by an agent
system can have a significant, quantitative effect on its performance characteristics. A range …

In this paper, we present an abstract structure called dependence graph, an extension of the
notion of dependence network, as proposed in [16]. While this latter can be applied to …

Agent-based service composition has provided a promising computing paradigm for the
automatic web service composition. In this paper, a formal service agent model is proposed …

Dependence between heterogeneous agents has gained attention from researchers
because dependence influences the capabilities of a particular agent in a multi-agent …

Ridesharing services offer on-demand transportation solutions while improving the
utilization of the available capacity of the vehicles on the road. Profit, travel time, and cost …

Human-robot collaboration (HRC) is the paradigm of humans and robots working
synergistically in a shared workspace toward common goals. Prior research models such …

We present a logic for reasoning both about the ability of agents to cooperate to execute
complex actions, and how this relates to their ability to reach certain states of affairs. We …

Requirements elicitation and analysis is intended to gain knowledge about customers'
needs and the environment of a software system. Requirements not only commonly deal …

On the theoretical side, coordination is a critical issue for MAS engineering, since it deals
with modelling and managing the ever growing complexity of the agent interplay within a …

This paper applies the two-party dependence theory (Castelfranchi, Cesta and Miceli, 1992,
in Y. Demazeau and E. Werner (Eds.) Decentralized AI-3, Elsevier, North Holland) to …