Social commitments have long been recognized as an important concept for multiagent
systems. We propose a rich formulation of social commitments that motivates an architecture …

Multiagent Systems (MASs) have evolved towards the specification of global constraints that
heterogeneous and autonomous agents are supposed to follow when concerning open …

Abstract The Multi-agent Systems (MAS) area, while concerning heterogeneous and open
systems, has evolved towards the specification of global constraints that agents are …

Reorganisation within a multi-agent system may be managed by the agents themselves by
adapting the organisation to both environmental changes and their own goals. In this paper …

Multi-agent systems require adaptability to perform effectively in complex and dynamic
environments. This article shows that agents should be able to benefit from dynamically …

Nowadays, engineering large-scale software systems means dealing with complex systems
composed of pervasive software components that move around and adapt to …

Agent-based software engineering has been proposed in addition to object-oriented
software engineering as a means of mastering the complexity associated with the …

In this paper, which is exploratory in nature, we discuss reorganization issues in agent
societies. We are interested in how and why organizations change, and how can …

In this paper we propose a multi-agent system modeling language (MAS-ML) that extends
UML (Unified Modeling Language) based on structural and dynamic properties presented in …

Organizations change with the dynamics of the world. To enable organizations to change,
certain structures and capabilities are needed. As all processes, a change process has an …