10 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fault Tolerance in Multiagent Systems
A decentralized multiagent systems (MAS) is comprised of autonomous agents who interact with each other via asynchronous messaging. A protocol specifies a MAS by specifying the constraints on messaging between...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Evolution of Interoperability
This note is a retrospective review of our 2006 paper [1] on the properties of protocols, especially interoperability.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analyzing Contract Robustness through a Model of Commitments
We address one of the challenges in develo** solutions based on multiagent systems for the problems of cross-organizational business processes and commerce generally. Specifically, we study how to gather and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Correctness Properties for Multiagent Systems
What distinguishes multiagent systems from other software systems is their emphasis on the interactions among autonomous, heterogeneous agents. This paper motivates and characterizes correctness properties for...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Elements of a Business-Level Architecture for Multiagent Systems
Existing architectures for multiagent systems emphasize low-level messaging-related considerations. As a result, the programming abstractions they provide are also low level. In recent years, commitments have ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling and Reasoning about Service-Oriented Applications via Goals and Commitments
Service-oriented applications facilitate the exchange of business services among participants. Existing modeling approaches either apply at a lower of abstraction than required for such applications or fail to...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Programming Multiagent Systems without Programming Agents
We consider the programming of multiagent systems from an architectural perspective. Our perspective emphasizes the autonomy and heterogeneity of agents, the components of multiagent systems, and focuses on ho...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interoperation in Protocol Enactment
Interoperability has been broadly conceptualized as the ability of agents to work together. In open systems, the interoperability of agents is an important concern. A common way of achieving interoperability i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Producing Compliant Interactions: Conformance, Coverage, and Interoperability
Agents in an open system interact with each other based on (typically, published) protocols. An agent may, however, deviate from the protocol because of its internal policies. Such deviations pose certain chal...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
OWL-P: A Methodology for Business Process Development
Business process modelling and enactment are notoriously complex, especially in open settings where the business partners are autonomous, requirements must be continually finessed, and exceptions frequently ar...
