Work to date on computational models of negotiation has focused almost exclusively on
defining contracts consisting of one or a few independent issues and tractable contract …

In response to the growing gap between memory access time and processor speed, DRAM
manufacturers have created several new DRAM architectures. This paper presents a …

Despite the considerable efforts spent on develo** multi-agent systems the actual number
of deployed systems is surprisingly small. One of the reasons for the significant gap between …

In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that
govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language …

In order to relate measurements made by a sensor mounted on a mechanical link to the
robot's coordinate frame we must first estimate the transformation between the sensor and …

Brokered multi-agent systems can be incapacitated and rendered non-functional when the
brokers become inaccessible due to failures that can occur in any distributed software …

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 are prone to failures typical of any distributed system. Agents and
resources may become unavailable due to machine crashes, communication breakdowns …

We conceptualize a decentralized software application as one constituted from autonomous
agents that communicate via asynchronous messaging. Modern software paradigms such …

Recently, two advances in agent-oriented software engineering have had a significant
impact: the identification of interaction and coordination as the central focus of multi-agent …