Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...
This paper presents an architecture that makes it possible to construct dynamic systems capable of growing in dimension and adapting its knowledge to environmental changes. An arch...
Abstract. Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSP) is a general framework for multi-agent coordination and conflict resolution. In most DCSP algorithms, inter-agent com...
In this paper we investigate the emergence of communication in competitive multi-agent systems. A competitive environment is created with two teams of agents competing in an explo...
Michelle McPartland, Stefano Nolfi, Hussein A. Abb...
We argue that it is useful to study classes of Multi-Agent System (MAS) architectures, corresponding to architectural styles in addition to particular tures. In this work we focus ...
Paul Davidsson, Stefan J. Johansson, Mikael Svahnb...