When agents act is a common environment they leave traces. In this paper we explore the
importance of using such traces as signals (stigma). Trace signals enable a flexible way to …

Similarly to institutions in human societies, an Electronic Institution (EI) provides a structured
framework for a Multi-Agent System (MAS) to regulate agents' interactions. However, current …

Interaction is at the core of multi-agent systems. We use agent environment as a general
term to denote the medium for agent interaction. Over the last years, the agent environment …

Recent research in the multi-agent systems field has highlighted the relevance of complex
interaction models such as multi-party communication and context awareness …

Awareness is a concept that has been frequently studied in the context of Computer
Supported Cooperative Work. However, other fields of computer science can benefit from …

Today, the concept of an environment for multi-agent systems is in its pioneering phase.
Consequently, the development of supporting software technologies is still rather primitive …

This chapter establishes the major role of the sense making and situation-understanding
process in crisis management, and outlines the importance of the contextualisation of …

For a multiagent system (MAS), coordination is the assumption that agents are able to adapt
their behavior according to those of the other agents. The principle of Property Based …

Agent's flexibility and autonomy, as well as their capacity to coordinate and cooperate, are
some of the features which make multiagent systems useful to work in dynamic and …

Les modèles de coordination orientés-données (eg Linda, Klaim etc.) se fondent sur un
espace de données partagées pour la coordination de processus et sont connus pour être …