Precisely when the success of artificial intelligence (AI) sub-symbolic techniques makes
them be identified with the whole AI by many non-computer-scientists and non-technical …

Business service engagements involve processes that extend across two or more
autonomous organizations. Because of regulatory and competitive reasons, requirements …

Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities
of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions provide a computational analogue …

This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment
corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of …

Although agent interaction plays a vital role in MAS, and message-centric approaches to
agent interaction have their drawbacks, present agent-oriented programming languages do …

Communication protocols are central to engineering decentralized multiagent systems.
Modern protocol languages are typically formal and address aspects of decentralization …

We present the JaCaMo+ framework for programming multiagent systems (MAS), where
agents interact thanks to commitment-based interaction protocols. Commitment protocols …

Ever since the seminal work of Searle, two components of interaction protocols have been
identified: constitutive rules, defining the meaning of actions and regulative rules, defining …

Agent interaction descriptions (or protocols) are a key aspect of the design of multi-agent
systems. However, in the authors' extensive experience, the notations commonly used for …

Engineering a decentralized multiagent system (MAS) requires realizing interactions
modeled as a communication protocol between autonomous agents. We contribute …