Next Generation Computing 1 (2009)
Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Chris Preist
Abstract. The European Commission’s eEurope initiative aims to bring every citizen, home, school, business and administration online to create a digitally literate Europe. The value lies not in the...
Computing as Interaction: Agent and Agreement Technologies (2009)
With the emergence of new paradigms for computing, such as peer-to-peer technologies, grid computing, autonomic computing and other approaches, it is becoming increasingly natural to view large...
Emergent Service Provisioning and Demand Estimation through Self-Organizing Agent Communities (2009)
Jacyno, Mariusz, Bullock, Seth, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry R.
A major challenge within open markets is the ability to satisfy service demand with an adequate supply of service providers, especially when such demand may be volatile due to changing requirements,...
Argumentation based Resolution of Conflicts Between Desires and Normative Goals (2009)
Norms represent what ought to be done, and their fulfillment can be seen as benefiting the overall system, society or organisation. However, individual agent goals (desire) may conflict with system...
commercial applications of agents (2008)
Steve Munroe, Tim Miller, Roxana A. Belecheanu, Michal Pe, Chouc Ek, Peter Mcburney, ...
Lessons, experiences and challenges in
Technology Diffusion: Analysing the Diffusion of Agent Technologies (2008)
Jez Mckean, Hayden Shorter, Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Steven Willmott
Abstract. Despite several examples of deployed agent systems, there remain barriers to the large-scale adoption of agent technologies. In order to understand these barriers, this paper considers...
Monitoring, Policing and Trust for Grid-Based Virtual Organisations (2008)
Jigar Patel, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Stuart Chalmers, Gareth Shercliff, ...
A key challenge in Grid Computing is the ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) which operate in an open, dynamic and competitive environment. In response, in the...
Towards Compliance of Agents in Open Multi-Agent Systems (2008)
Jorge Gonzalez-palacios, Michael Luck
Abstract. With the introduction of large-scale open systems, the need for managing interactions between agents, and in particular for managing the entry of a new agent into an existing system,...
INCORPORATING PLANNING INTO BDI SYSTEMS FELIPE RECH MENEGUZZI (2008)
Avelino Francisco Zorzo, Michael Da, Costa Móra, Michael Luck
Abstract. Many architectures of autonomous agent have been proposed throughout AI research. The most common architectures, BDI, are procedural in that they do no planning, seriously curtailing an...
Extending Gaia with Agent Design and Iterative Development (2008)
Jorge Gonzalez-palacios, Michael Luck
Abstract. Agent-oriented methodologies are an important means for constructing agent-based systems in a controlled repeatable form. However, agent-oriented methodologies have not received much...
A Hierarchical Bayesian Trust Model based on Reputation and Group Behaviour (2008)
Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, Nicholas R., Rogers, Alex, Luck, Michael
In many systems, agents must rely on their peers to achieve their goals. However, when trusted to perform an action, an agent may betray that trust by not behaving as required. Agents must therefore...
A Hierarchical Bayesian Trust Model based on Reputation and Group Behaviour (Presentation) (2008)
Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, Nicholas R., Rogers, Alex, Luck, Michael
In many systems, agents must rely on their peers to achieve their goals. However, when trusted to perform an action, an agent may betray that trust by not behaving as required. Agents must therefore...
Autonomic resource management through self-organising agent communities (2008)
Jacyno, Mariusz, Bullock, Seth, Payne, Terry R., Geard, Nicholas, Luck, Michael
In this paper, we analyse how autonomic resource management can be achieved within a system that lacks centralized information about current system demand and the state of system elements. Rather,...
AgentPrIMe: Adapting MAS Designs to Build Confidence (2008)
Simon Miles, Paul Groth, Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
Abstract. The products of systems cannot always be judged at face value: the process by which they were obtained is also important. For instance, the rigour of a scientific experiment, the ethics...
One of the key issues in the computational representation of open societies relates to the introduction of norms that help to cope with the heterogeneity, the autonomy and the diversity of interests...
Trust and Norms for Interaction (2008)
Michael Luck, Steve Munroe, Ronald Ashri
Abstract – Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. However, agents must manage the risk associated with interacting...
Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Onn Shehory, Steve Willmott, Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, ...
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Extending Gaia with Agent Design and Iterative Development (2008)
Jorge Gonzalez-palacios, Michael Luck
Abstract. Agent-oriented methodologies are an important means for constructing agent-based systems in a controlled repeatable form. However, agent-oriented methodologies have not received much...
Les Gasser ¢ Impact for Agents (2008)
Impact for agents. Most of the agent research community
Composing high-level plans for declarative agent programming (2008)
Felipe Meneguzzi, Michael Luck
Abstract. Research on practical models of autonomous agents has largely focused on a procedural view of goal achievement. This allows for efficient implementations, but prevents an agent from...
Motivations as an abstraction of meta-level reasoning (2008)
Felipe Meneguzzi, Michael Luck
Abstract. In agent systems, meta-level reasoning is commonly used in enforcing rationality in the choice of goals and actions performed by an agent, ensuring that an agent behaves as effectively and...
Evaluating dynamic services in bioinformatics (2008)
Maíra R. Rodrigues, Michael Luck
Abstract. In dynamic applications characterised by a variety of alternative services with the same functionality but heterogeneous results, agents requesting services must find an efficient way to...
1 Formal Methods and Agent-Based Systems (2008)
As has been discussed elsewhere [17], much agent-related work has tended to focus on either the development of practical applications, or the development of sophisticated logics for reasoning about...
Emanuela Merelli, Michael Luck
The scope of the Technical Forum Group (TFG) on Agents in Bioinformatics (BIOAGENTS) was to inspire collaboration between the agent and bioinformatics communities with the aim of creating an...
AgentPrIMe: Adapting MAS Designs to Build Confidence (2008)
Simon Miles, Paul Groth, Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
Abstract. The products of systems cannot always be judged at face value: the process by which they were obtained is also important. For instance, the rigour of a scientific experiment, the ethics...
1 A Normative Framework for Agent-Based Systems (2008)
Abstract. One of the key issues in the computational representation of open societies relates to the introduction of norms that help to cope with the heterogeneity, the autonomy and the diversity of...
Composing high-level plans for declarative agent programming (2008)
Felipe Meneguzzi, Michael Luck
Abstract. Research on practical models of autonomous agents has largely focused on a procedural view of goal achievement. This allows for efficient implementations, but prevents an agent from...
INCORPORATING PLANNING INTO BDI SYSTEMS FELIPE RECH MENEGUZZI (2008)
Avelino Francisco Zorzo, Michael Da, Costa Móra, Michael Luck
Abstract. Many architectures of autonomous agent have been proposed throughout AI research. The most common architectures, BDI, are procedural in that they do no planning, seriously curtailing an...
INCORPORATING PLANNING INTO BDI SYSTEMS FELIPE RECH MENEGUZZI (2008)
Avelino Francisco Zorzo, Michael Da, Costa Móra, Michael Luck
Abstract. ManyarchitecturesofautonomousagenthavebeenproposedthroughoutAIresearch.
Motivations as an abstraction of meta-level reasoning (2008)
Felipe Meneguzzi, Michael Luck
Abstract. In agent systems, meta-level reasoning is commonly used in enforcing rationality in the choice of goals and actions performed by an agent, ensuring that an agent behaves as effectively and...
2005, ‘The AgentLink III Technology Diffusion Model (2008)
Jez Mckean, Hayden Shorter, Peter Mcburney, Michael Luck
project. AgentLink III 1 is an EC-funded Co-ordination Action to support European research and development in agent-based computer technologies running from 1
Modelling the Provenance of Data in Autonomous Systems ABSTRACT (2008)
Simon Miles, Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
Determining the provenance of data, i.e. the process that led to that data, is vital in many disciplines. For example, in science, the process that produced a given result must be demonstrably...
Ronald Ashri, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Jordi Sabater, Michael Luck, Nicholas R. Jennings
Current mechanisms for evaluating the trustworthiness of an agent within an electronic marketplace depend either on using a history of interactions or on recommendations from other agents. In the...
Modelling & Simulating Chained Negotiation to Enable Sharing of Notifications (2008)
Richard Lawley, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
Notification services (NSs) are middleware components providing asynchronous message delivery between publishers and consumers. Multiple interconnected NSs form a distributed NS, with each NS routing...
AgentPrIMe: Adapting MAS Designs to Build Confidence (2008)
Simon Miles, Paul Groth, Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
Abstract. The products of systems cannot always be judged at face value: the process by which they were obtained is also important. For instance, the rigour of a scientific experiment, the ethics...
Mark d’Inverno A Formal Specification of dMARS (2008)
David Kinny, Michael Luck, Michael Wooldridge
Abstract. The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault...
The ART of IAM: The Winning Strategy for the 2006 Competition (2008)
Trung Dong Huynh, Rajdeep K. Dash, Nicholas R. Jennings, Jigar Patel, Michael Luck
In many dynamic open systems, agents have to interact with one another to achieve their goals. Here, agents may be self-interested, and when trusted to perform an action for others, may betray that...
Monitoring, Policing and Trust for Grid-Based Virtual Organisations (2008)
Jigar Patel Luke, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Stuart Chalmers, Gareth Shercliff, ...
A key challenge in Grid Computing is the ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) which operate in an open, dynamic and competitive environment. In response, in the...
An Architecture for 3APL (2007)
Koen Hindriks, Mark D'Inverno, Michael Luck
As the field of agent-based systems continues to expand rapidly, one of the most significant problems lies in being able to compare and evaluate the relative benefits and disadvantages of different...
Agent-Based Formation of Virtual (2007)
Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Viet D. Dang, Thuc D. Nguyen, Vikas Deora, ...
Richard Lawley, Michael Luck, Keith Decker, Terry Payne, Luc Moreau
Notification services mediate between information publishers and consumers that wish to subscribe to periodic updates. In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these...
On the Use of Agents in g BioInformgtics Grid (2007)
Luc Moreau, Simon Miles, Carole Goble, Mark Greenwood, Vijay Dialani, Nedim Alpdemir, ...
Project site: Contact Author: Email: www.mygrid.org.uk
Abstract. The notion of agents has provided a way of imbuing traditional computing systems with an extra degree of flexibility that allows them to be more resilient and robust in the face of more...
2. Autonomy: Variable and Generative 9 Chapter 2 Autonomy: Variable and Generative (2007)
Abstract: In the paper we discuss variable and generative forms of autonomy. Variable autonomy is discussed in terms of the practicalities in designing autonomous agents, dealing as it does with the...
Omer Rana, Chris Preist, Michael Luck
Continuing the series of workshops begun in 1996 (Luck, 1997; Doran et al., 1997; d'Inverno et al.,
Motivating Intelligent Agents for Virtual Environments (2007)
Abstract. An agent with multiple requirements and limited or constrained resources must be able to make decisions as to how to divide those resources in order to best satisfy its requirements. It may...
AFormal Framework for Agency and Autonomy (2007)
With the recent rapid growth of interest in Multi-Agent Systems, both in arti cial intelligence and software engineering, has come an associated di culty concerning basic terms and concepts. In...
AFormal View of Social Dependence Networks (2007)
Abstract. In response to the problems that have arisen regarding the terminology and concepts of agent-oriented systems, previous work has described a formal framework for understanding agency and...
David Kinny, Michael Luck, Michael Wooldridge
Abstract. The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault...
Understanding decentralised control of resource allocation in a minimal multi-agent system (2007)
Jacyno, Mariusz, Bullock, Seth, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry
Utility computing exemplifies a novel kind of solution to the increasing scale and complexity of modern IT systems. Here, the “on-demand” provisioning of computing resources is managed via a...
Understanding decentralised control of resource allocation in a minimal multi-agent system (2007)
Jacyno, Mariusz, Bullock, Seth, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry
Utility computing exemplifies a novel kind of solution to the increasing scale and complexity of modern IT systems. Here, the “on-demand” provisioning of computing resources is managed via a...
Understanding decentralised control of resource allocation in a minimal multi-agent system (2007)
Jacyno, Mariusz, Bullock, Seth, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry
Utility computing exemplifies a novel kind of solution to the increasing scale and complexity of modern IT systems. Here, the “on-demand” provisioning of computing resources is managed via a...
Understanding decentralised control of resource allocation in a minimal multi-agent system (2007)
Jacyno, Mariusz, Bullock, Seth, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry
Utility computing exemplifies a novel kind of solution to the increasing scale and complexity of modern IT systems. Here, the “on-demand” provisioning of computing resources is managed via a...
Technology Diffusion: the Case of Agent Technologies (2007)
Jez Mckean, Hayden Shorter, Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Steven Willmott
Despite several examples of deployed agent systems, there remain barriers to the large-scale adoption of agent technologies. In order to understand these barriers, this paper considers aspects of...
A Normative Framework for Agent-Based Systems (2007)
Lopez Y Lopez, Fabiola, Luck, Michael, D'Inverno, Mark
One of the key issues in the computational representation of open societies relates to the introduction of norms that help to cope with the heterogeneity, the autonomy and the diversity of interests...
Agents in bioinformatics, computational and systems biology (2007)
Merelli, Emanuela, Armano, Giuliano, Cannata, Nicola, Corradini, Flavio, D'Inverno, Mark, Doms, Andreas, ...
The adoption of agent technologies and multi-agent systems constitutes an emerging area in bioinformatics. In this article, we report on the activity of the Working Group on Agents in Bioinformatics...
Using Electronic Institutions to secure Grid environments (2006)
Ashri, Ronald, Payne, Terry R., Luck, Michael, Surridge, Mike, Sierra, Carles, Aguilar, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, ...
Abstract. As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access...
Commercial Applications of Agents: Lessons, Experiences and Challenges (2006)
Belecheanu, Roxana, Munroe, Steve, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry R., Miller, Tim, McBurney, Peter, ...
Using Electronic Institutions to secure Grid environments (2006)
Ashri, Ronald, Payne, Terry R., Luck, Michael, Surridge, Mike, Sierra, Carles, Aguilar, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, ...
Abstract. As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access...
Commercial Applications of Agents: Lessons, Experiences and Challenges (2006)
Belecheanu, Roxana, Munroe, Steve, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry R., Miller, Tim, McBurney, Peter, ...
Using Electronic Institutions to secure Grid environments (2006)
Ashri, Ronald, Payne, Terry R., Luck, Michael, Surridge, Mike, Sierra, Carles, Aguilar, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, ...
Abstract. As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access...
Commercial Applications of Agents: Lessons, Experiences and Challenges (2006)
Belecheanu, Roxana, Munroe, Steve, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry R., Miller, Tim, McBurney, Peter, ...
Analysing partner selection through exchange values (2006)
Maira Ribeiro Rodrigues, Michael Luck
Abstract. Dynamic and resource-constrained environments raise interesting issues for partnership formation and multi-agent systems. In a scenario in which agents interact with each other to exchange...
Commercial applications of agents: Lessons, experiences and challenges (2006)
Roxana A. Belecheanu, Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Terry Payne, Tim Miller, Peter Mcburney
As has been argued very eloquently and effectively, there is a chasm that needs to be crossed in the adoption of any new technology [8], and the marketing of such technologies must somehow try to...
Using Electronic Institutions to secure Grid environments (2006)
Ronald Ashri, Terry Payne, Michael Luck, Mike Surridge, Juan Antonio, Rodriguez Aguilar, ...
Abstract. As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access...
TRAVOS: Trust and reputation in the context of inaccurate information sources (2006)
Jigar Patel, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck
Abstract. In many dynamic open systems, agents have to interact with one another to achieve their goals. Here, agents may be self-interested and when trusted to perform an action for another, may...
Agent-based computing and programming of agent systems (2006)
Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Jorge Gonzalez-palacios
Abstract. The concepts of autonomous agent and multi-agent system provide appropriate levels of abstraction for the design, implementation and simulation of many complex, distributed computational...
Agent-based computing and programming of agent systems (2006)
Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Jorge Gonzalez-palacios
Abstract. The concepts of autonomous agent and multi-agent system provide appropriate levels of abstraction for the design, implementation and simulation of many complex, distributed computational...
Steve Munroe, Tim Miller, Roxana A. Belecheanu, Michal Pěchouček, Peter Mcburney, Michael Luck
Agent software technologies are currently still in an early stage of market development, where, arguably, the majority of users adopting the technology are visionaries who have recognized the long...
Commercial Applications of Agents: (2006)
Lessons Experiences And, Roxana A. Belecheanu, Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Terry Payne, Tim Miller, ...
this paper, we summarise some of these case studies, and review the lessons learned, with the aim of identifying key problems. Due to space constraints, only very brief descriptions are provided in...
Using Electronic Institutions to secure Grid environments (2006)
Ronald Ashri, Terry Payne, Michael Luck, Mike Surridge, Juan Antonio, Rodriguez Aguilar, ...
Abstract. As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access...
Analysing partner selection through exchange values (2006)
Maira Ribeiro Rodrigues, Michael Luck
Abstract. Dynamic and resource-constrained environments raise interesting issues for partnership formation and multi-agent systems. In a scenario in which agents interact with each other to exchange...
Logical architecture strawman for provenance systems (2005)
Moreau, Luc, Chen, Liming, Groth, Paul, Ibbotson, John, Luck, Michael, Miles, Simon, ...
The purpose of this document is to propose a logical architecture for a provenance system. The logical architecture is specified independently of specific technologies. Specifically, we introduce our...
Logical architecture strawman for provenance systems (2005)
Moreau, Luc, Chen, Liming, Groth, Paul, Ibbotson, John, Luck, Michael, Miles, Simon, ...
The purpose of this document is to propose a logical architecture for a provenance system. The logical architecture is specified independently of specific technologies. Specifically, we introduce our...
Logical architecture strawman for provenance systems (2005)
Moreau, Luc, Chen, Liming, Groth, Paul, Ibbotson, John, Luck, Michael, Miles, Simon, ...
The purpose of this document is to propose a logical architecture for a provenance system. The logical architecture is specified independently of specific technologies. Specifically, we introduce our...
A Probabilistic Trust Model for Handling Inaccurate Reputation Sources (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, Nicholas R., Luck, Michael
This research aims to develop a model of trust and reputation that will ensure good interactions amongst software agents in large scale open systems in particular. The following are key drivers for...
Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, Nicholas R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
The ability to create reliable, scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
Monitoring, Policing and Trust for Grid-Based Virtual Organisations (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, Nicholas R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
A key challenge in Grid Computing is the ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) which operate in an open, dynamic and competitive environment. In response, in the...
A Probabilistic Trust Model for Handling Inaccurate Reputation Sources (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael
This research aims to develop a model of trust and reputation that will ensure good interactions amongst software agents in large scale open systems in particular. The following are key drivers for...
Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
The ability to create reliable, scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
Monitoring, Policing and Trust for Grid-Based Virtual Organisations (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
A key challenge in Grid Computing is the ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) which operate in an open, dynamic and competitive environment. In response, in the...
A Probabilistic Trust Model for Handling Inaccurate Reputation Sources (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael
This research aims to develop a model of trust and reputation that will ensure good interactions amongst software agents in large scale open systems in particular. The following are key drivers for...
Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
The ability to create reliable, scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
Monitoring, Policing and Trust for Grid-Based Virtual Organisations (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
A key challenge in Grid Computing is the ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) which operate in an open, dynamic and competitive environment. In response, in the...
Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Victor Tan, Luc Moreau, Contributors Andics Árpád, Alexis Biller, ...
Version 0.4 rovenance ware ervice riented rchitecture p a s o a This document covers the logical and process architectures of provenance systems. The logical architecture identifies key roles and...
A proof of concept: Provenance in a service oriented architecture (2005)
Liming Chen, Victor Tan, Fenglian Xu, Alexis Biller, Paul Groth, Simon Miles, ...
Provenance has been identified as an emerging and important concept within the Grid community for a variety of purposes, such as verifying or tracing results. We seek to provide a concrete conception...
In Ai, Organisation Design, Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Onn Shehory, Steven Willmott
Peer-to-Peer
In Ai, Organisation Design, Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Onn Shehory, Steven Willmott
Peer-to-Peer
The Role of Agent Interaction in Models of Computing: Panelist Reviews (2005)
Peter Wegner, Farhad Arbab, Dina Goldin, Peter McBurney, Michael Luck, Dave Robertson
Logical architecture strawman for provenance systems (2005)
Luc Moreau, Liming Chen, Paul Groth, John Ibbotson, Michael Luck, Simon Miles, ...
The purpose of this document is to propose a logical architecture for a provenance system. The logical architecture is specified independently of specific technologies. Specifically, we introduce our...
Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid (2005)
Jigar Patel Luke, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Stuart Chalmers, Gareth Shercliff, ...
The ability to create reliable, scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid (2005)
Jigar Patel Luke, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Nir Oren, Timothy J. Norman, ...
The ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
Agent-based virtual organisations for the grid (2005)
Jigar Patel, Nicholas R Jennings, Michael Luck, Stuart Chalmers, Gareth Shercliff, ...
The ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the major challenges that underlie Grid computing. In...
Jigar Patel, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Multiagent Systems
This research aims to develop a model of trust and reputation that will ensure good interactions amongst software agents in large scale open systems. The following are key drivers for our model: (1)...
A probabilistic trust model for handling inaccurate reputation sources (2005)
Jigar Patel, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck
Abstract. This research aims to develop a model of trust and reputation that will ensure good interactions amongst software agents in large scale open systems in particular. The following are key...
Balancing Conflict and Cost in the Selection of Negotiation Opponents (2005)
Abstract. Within the context of agent-to-agent purchase negotiations, a problem that has received little attention is that of identifying negotiation opponents in situations where the consequences of...
Agent-based virtual organisations for the grid (2005)
Jigar Patel, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Stuart Chalmers, Gareth Shercliff, ...
The ability to create reliable, scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
M.: Motivation-based selection of negotiation opponents (2005)
Abstract. If we are to enable agents to handle increasingly greater levels of complexity, it is necessary to equip them with mechanisms that support greater degrees of autonomy. This is especially...
In Ai, Organisation Design, Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Onn Shehory, Steven Willmott
Peer-to-Peer
A Manifesto for Agent Technology: Towards Next Generation Computing (2004)
Luck, Michael, McBurney, P, Preist, C
The European Commission's eEurope initiative aims to bring every citizen, home, school, business and administration online to create a digitally literate Europe. The value lies not in the objective...
A Manifesto for Agent Technology: Towards Next Generation Computing (2004)
Luck, Michael, McBurney, P, Preist, C
The European Commission's eEurope initiative aims to bring every citizen, home, school, business and administration online to create a digitally literate Europe. The value lies not in the objective...
A Manifesto for Agent Technology: Towards Next Generation Computing (2004)
Luck, Michael, McBurney, P, Preist, C
The European Commission's eEurope initiative aims to bring every citizen, home, school, business and administration online to create a digitally literate Europe. The value lies not in the objective...
The dMARS Architechure: A Specification of the Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System (2004)
D'Inverno, Mark, Luck, Michael, Georgeff, M, Kinny, D, Wooldridge, M
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault diagnosis on the...
The dMARS Architechure: A Specification of the Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System (2004)
D'Inverno, Mark, Luck, Michael, Georgeff, M, Kinny, D, Wooldridge, M
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault diagnosis on the...
The dMARS Architechure: A Specification of the Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System (2004)
D'Inverno, Mark, Luck, Michael, Georgeff, M, Kinny, D, Wooldridge, M
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault diagnosis on the...
Agent-based formation of virtual organisations (2004)
Norman, Timothy J., Preece, Alun David, Chalmers, Stuart, Jennings, N.R., Luck, Michael, Dang, Viet D., ...
Virtual organisations (VOs) are composed of a number of individuals, departments or organisations each of which has a range of capabilities and resources at their disposal. These VOs are formed so...
Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Payne, Terry, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc
Service discovery in large scale, open distributed systems is difficult because of the need to filter out services suitable to the task at hand from a potentially huge pool of possibilities. Semantic...
A Framework for Patterns in Gaia: A case-study with Organisations (2004)
Gonzalez-Palacios, Jorge, Luck, Michael
The agent-oriented approach has been successfully applied to the solution of complex problems in dynamic open environments. However, to extend its use to mainstream computing and industrial...
Formalising a protocol for recording provenance in grids (2004)
Groth, Paul, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc
Both the scientific and business communities are beginning to rely on Grids as problemsolving mechanisms. These communities also have requirements in terms of provenance. Provenance is the...
Chained negotiation for distributed notification services (2004)
Lawley, Richard, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc
Distributed notification services allow consumers and publishers of notifications to interact with different notification services. However, such a distributed infrastructure makes it difficult to...
Principles of personalisation of service discovery (2004)
Papay, Juri, Miles, Simon, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc, Payne, Terry
We define personalisation as the set of capabilities that enables a user or an organisation to customise their working environment to suit their specific needs, preferences and circumstances. In the...
A Motivation Based Planning and Execution Framework (2004)
Coddington, A.M., Luck, Michael
AI planning systems tend to be disembodied and are not situated within the environment for which plans are generated, thus losing information concerning the interaction between the system and its...
Agents and the Grid: Service Discovery (2004)
Moreau, Luc, Luck, Michael, Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Decker, K, Payne, Terry
Automated Negotiation for Grid Notification Services (2004)
Lawley, Richard, Decker, Keith, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry, Moreau, Luc
Notification Services mediate between information publishers and con- sumers that wish to subscribe to periodic updates. In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these...
A Framework for Patterns in Gaia: A case-study with Organisations (2004)
Gonzalez-Palacios, Jorge, Luck, Michael
The agent-oriented approach has been successfully applied to the solution of complex problems in dynamic open environments. However, to extend its use to mainstream computing and industrial...
Formalising a protocol for recording provenance in grids (2004)
Groth, Paul, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc
Both the scientific and business communities are beginning to rely on Grids as problemsolving mechanisms. These communities also have requirements in terms of provenance. Provenance is the...
Chained negotiation for distributed notification services (2004)
Lawley, Richard, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc
Distributed notification services allow consumers and publishers of notifications to interact with different notification services. However, such a distributed infrastructure makes it difficult to...
Principles of personalisation of service discovery (2004)
Papay, Juri, Miles, Simon, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc, Payne, Terry
We define personalisation as the set of capabilities that enables a user or an organisation to customise their working environment to suit their specific needs, preferences and circumstances. In the...
A Motivation Based Planning and Execution Framework (2004)
Coddington, A.M., Luck, Michael
AI planning systems tend to be disembodied and are not situated within the environment for which plans are generated, thus losing information concerning the interaction between the system and its...
Agents and the Grid: Service Discovery (2004)
Moreau, Luc, Luck, Michael, Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Decker, K, Payne, Terry
A Framework for Patterns in Gaia: A case-study with Organisations (2004)
Gonzalez-Palacios, Jorge, Luck, Michael
The agent-oriented approach has been successfully applied to the solution of complex problems in dynamic open environments. However, to extend its use to mainstream computing and industrial...
Formalising a protocol for recording provenance in grids (2004)
Groth, Paul, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc
Both the scientific and business communities are beginning to rely on Grids as problemsolving mechanisms. These communities also have requirements in terms of provenance. Provenance is the...
Chained negotiation for distributed notification services (2004)
Lawley, Richard, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc
Distributed notification services allow consumers and publishers of notifications to interact with different notification services. However, such a distributed infrastructure makes it difficult to...
Principles of personalisation of service discovery (2004)
Papay, Juri, Miles, Simon, Luck, Michael, Moreau, Luc, Payne, Terry
We define personalisation as the set of capabilities that enables a user or an organisation to customise their working environment to suit their specific needs, preferences and circumstances. In the...
A Motivation Based Planning and Execution Framework (2004)
Coddington, A.M., Luck, Michael
AI planning systems tend to be disembodied and are not situated within the environment for which plans are generated, thus losing information concerning the interaction between the system and its...
Agents and the Grid: Service Discovery (2004)
Moreau, Luc, Luck, Michael, Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Decker, K, Payne, Terry
Agent-based Formation of Virtual Organisations (2004)
Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Viet D Dang, Thuc D Nguyen, Vikas Deora, ...
Virtual organisations (VOs) are composed of a number of individuals, departments or organisations each of which has a range of capabilities and resources at their disposal. These VOs are formed so...
Minimising intrusiveness in pervasive computing environments using multi-agent negotiation (2004)
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Benjamin Deitch, Mark K. Thompson, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck
This paper highlights intrusiveness as a key issue in the field of pervasive computing environments and presents a multi-agent approach to tackling it. Specifically, we discuss how interruptions can...
An Agent Construction Model for Ubiquitous Computing Devices (2004)
Abstract. One of the main challenges for the successful application of agentbased systems in mobile and embedded devices is enabling application developers to reconcile the needs of the user to the...
A framework for patterns in gaia: A case-study with organisations (2004)
Jorge Gonzalez-palacios, Michael Luck
Abstract. The agent-oriented approach has been successfully applied to the solution of complex problems in dynamic open environments. However, to extend its use to mainstream computing and industrial...
Based on invited talks by (2004)
Emanuela Merelli, Michael Luck, Giuliano Armano, Andrea Doms, Nicola Cannata, Flavio Corradini, ...
The first Technical Forum Group (TFG) on Agents in Bioinformatics (BIOAGENTS) was held on the 2nd of July, 2004, in Rome, Italy. The scope of the TFG was to inspire collaboration between the agent...
Motivation-based selection of negotiation partners (2004)
Negotiation is key to resolving conflicts, allocating resources and establishing cooperation in systems of selfinterested agents. Often, an agent may have to select between different potential...
Formalising a protocol for recording provenance in grids (2004)
Paul Groth, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
Both the scientific and business communities are beginning to rely on Grids as problemsolving mechanisms. These communities also have requirements in terms of provenance. Provenance is the...
Principles of Personalisation of Service Discovery (2004)
Juri Papay Simon, Simon Miles, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau, Terry Payne
We define personalisation as the set of capabilities that enables a user or an organisation to customise their working environment to suit their specific needs, preferences and circumstances.
Formalising a protocol for recording provenance in Grids (2004)
Paul Groth, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
Both the scientific and business communities are beginning to rely on Grids as problem solving mechanisms. These communities also have requirements in terms of provenance. Provenance is the...
Chained Negotiation for Distributed Notification Services (2004)
Richard Lawley, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
Distributed notification services allow consumers and publishers of notifications to interact with different notification services. However, such a distributed infrastructure makes it difficult to...
Minimising intrusiveness in pervasive computing environments using multi-agent negotiation (2004)
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Benjamin Deitch, Mark K. Thompson, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck
This paper highlights intrusiveness as a key issue in the field of pervasive computing environments and presents a multi-agent approach to tackling it. Specifically, we discuss how interruptions can...
The dmars architecture: A specification of the distributed multi-agent reasoning system (2004)
Michael Luck, Michael Wooldridge
Abstract. The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault...
A protocol for recording provenance in service-oriented grids (2004)
Paul Groth, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
Abstract. Both the scientific and business communities, which are beginning to rely on Grids as problem-solving mechanisms, have requirements in terms of provenance. The provenance of some data is...
Implementing policy management through bdi (2004)
Simon Miles, Juri Papay, Michael Luck, Luc Moreau
The requirement for Grid middleware to be largely transparent to individual users and at the same time act in accordance with their personal needs is a difficult challenge. In e-science scenarios,...
A Model of Normative Multi-Agent Systems and Dynamic Relationships (2004)
For agents, one of the advantages of being part of a society is the satisfaction of those goals whose success depends on the abilities of other agents.
A manifesto for agent technology: Towards next generation computing (2004)
Abstract. The European Commission’s eEurope initiative aims to bring every citizen, home, school, business and administration online to create a digitally literate Europe. The value lies not in the...
Automated Negotiation Between Publishers and Consumers of Grid Notifications (2003)
Lawley, Richard, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry R., Moreau, Luc
In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these updates and the delivery preferences of the consumer, often in terms of frequency of delivery, quality, etc. In this...
Automated Negotiation Between Publishers and Consumers of Grid Notifications (2003)
Lawley, Richard, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry R., Moreau, Luc
In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these updates and the delivery preferences of the consumer, often in terms of frequency of delivery, quality, etc. In this...
Automated Negotiation Between Publishers and Consumers of Grid Notifications (2003)
Lawley, Richard, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry R., Moreau, Luc
In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these updates and the delivery preferences of the consumer, often in terms of frequency of delivery, quality, etc. In this...
Personalised Grid Service Discovery (2003)
Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Dialani, Vijay, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry, ...
The authors take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. They argue that such processes must rely on the storage of...
Personalised Grid Service Discovery (2003)
Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Dialani, Vijay, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry, ...
The authors take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. They argue that such processes must rely on the storage of...
Personalised Grid Service Discovery (2003)
Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Dialani, Vijay, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry, ...
The authors take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. They argue that such processes must rely on the storage of...
Personalised Grid Service Discovery (2003)
Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Dialani, Vijay, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry, ...
The authors take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. They argue that such processes must rely on the storage of...
Automated Negotiation for Grid Notification Services (2003)
Lawley, Richard, Decker, Keith, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry, Moreau, Luc
Notification Services mediate between information publishers and consumers that wish to subscribe to periodic updates. In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these...
Personalised Grid Service Discovery (2003)
Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Dialani, Vijay, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry, ...
We take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. We argue that such processes must rely on the storage of arbitrary...
On the Use of Agents in a BioInformatics Grid (2003)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Goble, Carole, Greenwood, Mark, Dialani, Vijay, Addis, Matthew, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help them to automate the management of such workflows...
Personalised Grid Service Discovery (2003)
Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Dialani, Vijay, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry, ...
We take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. We argue that such processes must rely on the storage of arbitrary...
On Identifying and Managing Relationships in Multi-Agent Systems (2003)
Ashri, Ronald, Luck, Michael, D'Inverno, Mark
Multi-agent systems result from interactions between individual agents. Through these interactions different kinds of relationships are formed, which can impact substantially on the overall system...
On the Use of Agents in a BioInformatics Grid (2003)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Goble, Carole, Greenwood, Mark, Dialani, Vijay, Addis, Matthew, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help them to automate the management of such workflows...
Coalition formation through motivation and trust (2003)
Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable, there must be...
Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems (2003)
Miles, Simon, Joy, M, Luck, Michael
Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is a promising approach to developing applications for dynamic open systems. If well developed, these applications can be opportunistic, taking advantage of...
Towards a Motivation-Based Approach for Evaluating Goals (2003)
Munroe, Steve, Luck, Michael, D'Inverno, Mark
Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in which a goal state can...
On the Use of Agents in a BioInformatics Grid (2003)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Goble, Carole, Greenwood, Mark, Dialani, Vijay, Addis, Matthew, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help them to automate the management of such workflows...
Personalised Grid Service Discovery (2003)
Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Dialani, Vijay, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry, ...
We take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. We argue that such processes must rely on the storage of arbitrary...
On Identifying and Managing Relationships in Multi-Agent Systems (2003)
Ashri, Ronald, Luck, Michael, D'Inverno, Mark
Multi-agent systems result from interactions between individual agents. Through these interactions different kinds of relationships are formed, which can impact substantially on the overall system...
On the Use of Agents in a BioInformatics Grid (2003)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Goble, Carole, Greenwood, Mark, Dialani, Vijay, Addis, Matthew, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help them to automate the management of such workflows...
Coalition formation through motivation and trust (2003)
Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable, there must be...
Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems (2003)
Miles, Simon, Joy, M, Luck, Michael
Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is a promising approach to developing applications for dynamic open systems. If well developed, these applications can be opportunistic, taking advantage of...
Towards a Motivation-Based Approach for Evaluating Goals (2003)
Munroe, Steve, Luck, Michael, D'Inverno, Mark
Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in which a goal state can...
On the Use of Agents in a BioInformatics Grid (2003)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Goble, Carole, Greenwood, Mark, Dialani, Vijay, Addis, Matthew, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help them to automate the management of such workflows...
Personalised Grid Service Discovery (2003)
Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Dialani, Vijay, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry, ...
We take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. We argue that such processes must rely on the storage of arbitrary...
On Identifying and Managing Relationships in Multi-Agent Systems (2003)
Ashri, Ronald, Luck, Michael, D'Inverno, Mark
Multi-agent systems result from interactions between individual agents. Through these interactions different kinds of relationships are formed, which can impact substantially on the overall system...
On the Use of Agents in a BioInformatics Grid (2003)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Goble, Carole, Greenwood, Mark, Dialani, Vijay, Addis, Matthew, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help them to automate the management of such workflows...
Coalition formation through motivation and trust (2003)
Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable, there must be...
Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems (2003)
Miles, Simon, Joy, M, Luck, Michael
Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is a promising approach to developing applications for dynamic open systems. If well developed, these applications can be opportunistic, taking advantage of...
Towards a Motivation-Based Approach for Evaluating Goals (2003)
Munroe, Steve, Luck, Michael, D'Inverno, Mark
Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in which a goal state can...
Towards motivation-based decisions for worth goals (2003)
Abstract. In this paper we present a motivational mechanism to generate and determine the worth of goals and to represent various constraints involved in satisfying a goal. The work builds on the...
Architectures for negotiating agents (2003)
Ronald Ashri, Iyad Rahwan, Michael Luck
Abstract. Automated negotiation is gaining interest, but issues relating to the construction of negotiating agent architectures have not been addressed sufficiently. Towards this end, we present a...
Personalised grid service discovery (2003)
Simon Miles, J. Papay, Vijay Dialani, Michael Luck, Keith Decker, Luc Moreau
Abstract. We take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. We argue that such processes must rely on the storage of...
On identifying and managing relationships in multi-agent systems (2003)
Multi-agent systems result from interactions between individual agents. Through these interactions different kinds of relationships are formed, which can impact substantially on the overall system...
On the use of agents in a bioinformatics grid (2003)
Luc Moreau, Simon Miles, Carole Goble, Mark Greenwood, Vijay Dialani, Matthew Addis, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help them to automate the management of such workflows...
On the use of agents in a bioinformatics grid (2003)
Luc Moreau, Simon Miles, Carole Goble, Mark Greenwood, Vijay Dialani, Matthew Addis, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help them to automate the management of such workflows...
Personalised grid service discovery (2003)
Simon Miles, J. Papay, Vijay Dialani, Michael Luck, Keith Decker, Luc Moreau
Abstract. We take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. We argue that such processes must rely on the storage of...
Architectures for negotiating agents (2003)
Ronald Ashri, Iyad Rahwan, Michael Luck
In multi-agent environments, agents often need to interact in order to achieve their objectives or improve their performance. One type of interaction that is gaining increasing interest is...
Towards a methodology for coordination mechanism selection in open systems (2003)
Simon Miles, Mike Joy, Michael Luck
Abstract. Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is a promising approach to developing applications for dynamic open systems. If well developed, these applications can be opportunistic, taking...
Personalised grid service discovery (2003)
Simon Miles, J. Papay, Vijay Dialani, Michael Luck, Keith Decker, Luc Moreau
Abstract. We take a broad view that ultimately Grid- or Web-services must be located via personalised, semantic-rich discovery processes. We argue that such processes must rely on the storage of...
Architectures for Negotiating Agents (2003)
Ronald Ashri Iyad, Iyad Rahwan, Michael Luck
Automated negotiation is gaining interest, but issues relating to the construction of negotiating agent architectures have not been addressed sufficiently.
Automated Negotiation for Grid Notification Services (2003)
Richard Lawley Keith, Keith Decker, Michael Luck, Terry Payne, Luc Moreau
Notification Services mediate between information publishers and consumers that wish to subscribe to periodic updates. In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these...
Towards a Motivation-Based Approach for Evaluating Goals (2003)
Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Mark D'Inverno, Multiagent Systems
Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in which a goal state can...
A Motivation-based Planning and Execution Framework (2003)
Alexandra M. Coddington, Michael Luck
This paper argues that such information may potentially be valuable in constraining plan formulation, and presents both an agent- and domainindependent architecture that extends the classical AI...
Automated negotiation for grid notification services (2003)
Richard Lawley, Keith Decker, Michael Luck, Terry Payne, Luc Moreau
Abstract. Notification Services mediate between information publishers and consumers that wish to subscribe to periodic updates. In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination...
On Identifying and Managing Relationships in Multi-Agent Systems (2003)
Ronald Ashri And, Ronald Ashri, Michael Luck
Multi-agent systems result from interactions between individual agents. Through these interactions different kinds of relationships are formed, which can impact substantially on the overall system...
Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems (2002)
Miles, Simon, Joy, Mike, Luck, Michael
Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is a promising approach to developing applications for dynamic open systems. If well developed, these applications can be opportunistic, taking advantage of...
On the Use of Agents in a BioInformatics Grid (2002)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Goble, Carole, Greenwood, Mark, Dialani, Vijay, Addis, Matthew, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help to automate the management of such workflows through...
Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems (2002)
Miles, Simon, Joy, Mike, Luck, Michael
Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is a promising approach to developing applications for dynamic open systems. If well developed, these applications can be opportunistic, taking advantage of...
On the Use of Agents in a BioInformatics Grid (2002)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Goble, Carole, Greenwood, Mark, Dialani, Vijay, Addis, Matthew, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help to automate the management of such workflows through...
Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems (2002)
Miles, Simon, Joy, Mike, Luck, Michael
Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is a promising approach to developing applications for dynamic open systems. If well developed, these applications can be opportunistic, taking advantage of...
On the Use of Agents in a BioInformatics Grid (2002)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Goble, Carole, Greenwood, Mark, Dialani, Vijay, Addis, Matthew, ...
MyGrid is an e-Science Grid project that aims to help biologists and bioinformaticians to perform workflow-based in silico experiments, and help to automate the management of such workflows through...
Transparent fault tolerance for web services based architectures (2002)
Vijay Dialani, Simon Miles, Luc Moreau, David De Roure, Michael Luck
Abstract. Service-based architectures enable the development of new classes of Grid and distributed applications. One of the main capabilities provided by such systems is the dynamic and flexible...
Annotating Cooperative Plans with Trusted Agents (2002)
Nathan Griffiths Michael, Michael Luck
Cooperation is the single most fundamental characteristic of multiagent systems, and much work has been done on studying the various aspects involved, from general models of the overall structure of...
Autonomy: A Nice Idea in Theory (2001)
Autonomy is perplexing. It is recognisably and undeniably a critical issue in the field of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, yet it is often ignored or simply assumed. For many, agents are...
A Conceptual Framework for Agent Definition and Development (2001)
Luck, Michael, D'Inverno, Mark
The use of agents of many different kinds in a variety of fields of computer science and artificial intelligence is increasing rapidly and is due, in part, to their wide applicability. The richness...
Can models of agents be transferred between different areas? (2000)
Dautenhahn, Kerstin, Doran, Jim, Luck, Michael (Michael M.), Moss, S. (Scott), Tennenholtz, Moshe
One of the main reasons for the sustained activity and interest in the field of agent-based systems, apart from the obvious recognition of its value as a natural and intuitive way of understanding...
Sociological agents for effective social action (2000)
This paper is concerned with the problem of how effective social interaction arises from individual social action and mind. The need to study the individual social mind, suggests a move towards the...
Paradigma: Agent implementation through Jini (2000)
One of the key problems of recent years has been the divide between theoretical work in agent-based systems and its practical complement which have, to a large extent, developed along different...
Plan analysis for autonomous sociological agents (2000)
Abstract. This paper is concerned with the problem of how effective social interaction arises from individual social action and mind. The need to study the individual social mind suggests a move...
Designing Agent-Oriented systems by Analysing Agent Interactions (2000)
Simon Miles, Mike Joy, Michael Luck
Abstract. We propose a preliminary methodology for agent-oriented software engineering based on the idea of agent interaction analysis. This approach uses interactions between undetermined agents as...
Formal agent development: Framework to system (2000)
Abstract. Much work in the field of agent-based systems has tended to focus on either the development of practical applications of agent systems on the one hand, or the development of sophisticated...
Applying Artificial Intelligence To Virtual Reality: Intelligent Virtual Environments (2000)
Reearch into virtual environments on the one hand and artificial intelligence and artificial life on the other has largely been carried out by two different groups of people with different...
Applying Artificial Intelligence to Virtual Reality: Intelligent Virtual Environments (2000)
Reearch into virtual environments on the one hand and artificial intelligence and artificial life on the other has largely been carried out by two different groups of people with different...
Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (1999)
Martin Beer, Michael Luck, Michael Schroeder
In systems composed of multiple autonomous agents, negotiation is a key form of interaction that enables groups of agents to arrive at a mutual agreement regarding some belief, goal or plan, for...
A Secure On-Line Submission System (1999)
Michael Luck, Mike Joy, Coventry Cv Al
As student numbers on Computer Science courses continue to increase, the corresponding demands placed on teaching staff in terms of assessment grow ever stronger. In particular the submission and...
A Secure On-Line Submission System (1999)
Michael Luck, Mike Joy, Coventry Cv Al
As student numbers on Computer Science courses continue to increase, the corresponding demands placed on teaching staff in terms of assessment grow ever stronger. In particular the submission and...
From definition to deployment: What next for agent-based systems (1999)
The rapid development of the field of agent-based systems offers a new and exciting paradigm for the development of sophisticated programs in dynamic and open environments, particularly in...
Cooperative Plan Selection Through Trust (1999)
Nathan Griffiths, Michael Luck
Abstract. Cooperation plays a fundamental role in multi-agent systems in which individual agents must interact for the overall system to function effectively. However, cooperation inherently involves...
Cooperative Plan Selection Through Trust (1999)
Nathan Griffiths, Michael Luck
Abstract. Cooperation plays a fundamental role in multi-agent systems in which individual agents must interact for the overall system to function effectively. However, cooperation inherently involves...
From Definition to Deployment: What Next for Agent-Based Systems? (1999)
The rapid development of the field of agent-based systems offers a new and exciting paradigm for the development of sophisticated programs in dynamic and open environments, particularly in...
Negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems (1999)
Martin Beer, Mark D'Inverno, Michael Luck, Nick Jennings, Chris Preist, Michael Schroeder
This report is the result of a panel discussion at the Workshop of the UK Special Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS'98). All members of the panel are authors, listed alphabetically.
Cooperative Plan Selection Through Trust (1999)
Nathan Griffiths And, Nathan Griffiths, Michael Luck
Cooperation plays a fundamental role in multi-agent systems in which individual agents must interact for the overall system to function effectively.
Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (1999)
Martin Beer, Michael Luck, Michael Schroeder
In systems composed of multiple autonomous agents, negotiation is a key form of interaction that enables groups of agents to arrive at a mutual agreement regarding some belief, goal or plan, for...
Motivated behaviour for goal adoption (1998)
Abstract. Social behaviour arises as a result of individual agents cooperating with each other so as to exploit the resources available in a rich and dynamic multi-agent domain. If agents are to make...
Interaction protocols in Agentis (1998)
Agentis is a framework for building interactive multiagent applications which is based upon a model of agent interaction whose key elements are services and tasks. Central to the operation of the...
Architecture for agent programming languages (1998)
Koen Hindriks, Mark D'inverno, Michael Luck
As the field of agent-based systems continues to expand rapidly, one of the most significant problems lies in being able to compare and evaluate the relative benefits and disadvantages of different...
Architecture for agent programming languages (1998)
As the field of agent-based systems continues to expand rapidly, one of the most significant problems lies in being able to compare and evaluate the relative benefits and disadvantages of different...
Interaction Protocols in Agentis (1998)
Mark D'Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck
Agentis is a framework for building interactive multiagent applications which is based upon a model of agent interaction whose key elements are services and tasks. Central to the operation of the...
Interaction Protocols in Agentis (1998)
Mark D'Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck
Agentis is a framework for building interactive multi-agent applications that is based upon a model of interaction whose key elements are services and tasks. A key to the operation of the Agentis...
Architecture for agent programming languages (1998)
As the field of agent-based systems continues to expand rapidly, one of the most significant problems lies in being able to compare and evaluate the relative benefits and disadvantages of different...
Engineering AgentSpeak(L): A Formal Computational Model (1998)
D'INVERNO, MARK, LUCK, MICHAEL
Perhaps the most successful agent architectures, and certainly the best known, are those based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework. Despite the wealth of research that has accumulated on...
A formal framework for hypertext systems (1997)
Hypertext and hypertext systems are seeing a remarkably rapid growth in both use and development. In this paper we aim to consolidate on previous work by presenting a specification that captures the...
Making and breaking engagements: An operational analysis of agent relationships (1997)
Abstract. Fundamental to the operation of multi-agent systems is the concept of cooperation between individual agents by which the overall system exhibits significantly greater functionality than the...
Formalisms for Multi-Agent Systems (1997)
Michael Fisher, Alessio Lomuscio, Michael Luck, Maarten De Rijke, Mark Ryan, Michael Wooldridge
Making and breaking engagements: An operational analysis of agent relationships (1997)
Abstract. Fundamental to the operation of multi-agent systems is the concept of cooperation between individual agents by which theoverall system exhibits signi cantly greater functionality than the...
A formal framework for hypertext systems (1997)
Hypertext and hypertext systems are seeing a remarkably rapid growth in both use and development. In this paper we aim to consolidate on previous work by presenting a specification that captures the...
From agent theory to agent construction: A case study (1997)
Michael Luck, Nathan Griffiths, Coventry Cv Al
Abstract. There is a growing body of work that concentrates on theoretical aspects of agents and multi-agent systems, and a complementary body of work concerned with building practical systems....
A Formal Specification of dMARS (1997)
Mark Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck, Michael Wooldridge
. The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault diagnosis on the...
Mark Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael Wooldridge, International House
In order to cooperate effectively with its peers, an agent must manipulate representations of the social structures in which it plays a part. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the...
A Formal Framework for Hypertext Systems (1997)
Mark D'Inverno, Mark Priestley, Michael Luck
Hypertext and hypertext systems are seeing a remarkably rapid growth in both use and development. In this paper we aim to consolidate on previous work by presenting a specification that captures the...
Development and Application of a Formal Agent Framework (1997)
Previous work has addressed the development of a framework to categorise and understand agent-based systems. It described and formalised an agent-hierarchy that included objects, agents and...
A Z Specification of the Soft-Link Hypertext Model (1997)
Mark D'Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael Hu
This paper provides a formal specification in Z of a new intelligent hypertext model called the soft-link hypertext model (SLHM). This model has been implemented and extensively tested, and provides...
From Agent Theory to Agent Construction: A Case Study (1997)
Michael Luck, Nathan Griffiths, Coventry Cv Al
. There is a growing body of work that concentrates on theoretical aspects of agents and multi-agent systems, and a complementary body of work concerned with building practical systems. However, the...
Formalisms for Multi-Agent Systems (1997)
Mark D'Inverno, Michael Fisher, Alessio Lomuscio, Michael Luck, Maarten De Rijke, Mark Ryan, ...
This report is the result of a panel discussion at the First UK Workshop on Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems (FoMAS '96). All members of the panel are authors, listed alphabetically. as...
A Formal Specification of dMARS (1997)
Mark D'Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck, Michael Wooldridge
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault diagnosis on the...
Computer-Assisted Learning Using the Web (1997)
Mike Joy, Michael Luck, Coventry Cv Al
As student numbers increase, and as more flexible methods of teaching are required both for traditional higher and further education courses and for more novel distance learning, the challenge facing...
Mark D'Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael Wooldridge, International House
In order to cooperate effectively with its peers, an agent must manipulate representations of the social structures in which it plays a part. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the...
Formalisms for Multi-Agent Systems (1997)
Michael Fisher, Alessio Lomuscio, Michael Luck, Maarten De Rijke, Mark Ryan, Michael Wooldridge
Engagement and cooperation in motivated agent modelling (1996)
Abstract. The title of this paper suggests two distinct aspects of the models that we propose and consider. The rst of these is the modelling of other agents by motivated agents.Thatistosay that the...
Formalising the contract net as a goal-directed system (1996)
Abstract. In response to the problems that have arisen regarding the terminology and concepts of agent-oriented systems, previous work has described a formal framework for understanding agency and...
Engagement and Cooperation in Motivated Agent Modelling (1996)
. The title of this paper suggests two distinct aspects of the models that we propose and consider. The first of these is the modelling of other agents by motivated agents. That is to say that the...
Understanding Autonomous Interaction (1996)
. Autonomy is a necessary part of the design of agents flexible enough to function effectively and efficiently in a sophisticated world. Much work, however, has taken a very restricted view of what...
A Formal View of Social Dependence Networks (1996)
. In response to the problems that have arisen regarding the terminology and concepts of agent-oriented systems, previous work has described a formal framework for understanding agency and autonomy....
Formalising the Contract Net as a Goal-Directed System (1996)
. In response to the problems that have arisen regarding the terminology and concepts of agent-oriented systems, previous work has described a formal framework for understanding agency and autonomy....
Languages Mueller Wooldridge, Michael Luck
There is a growing body of work that concentrates on theoretical aspects of agents and multi-agent systems, and a complementary body of work concerned with building practical systems. However, the...
Structuring a Z Specification to Provide a Formal Framework for Autonomous Agent Systems (1995)
Abstract. This paper describes a project which is using Z in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a defining framework for agency and autonomy. Specifically, the use of Z has provided...
Structuring a Z Specification to Provide a Formal Framework for Autonomous Agent Systems (1995)
Notation J. Tion, Michael Luck, Mark D'inverno
This paper describes a project which is using Z in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a defining framework for agency and autonomy. Specifically, the use of Z has provided a means...
A Formal Framework for Agency and Autonomy (1995)
With the recent rapid growth of interest in MultiAgent Systems, both in artificial intelligence and software engineering, has come an associated difficulty concerning basic terms and concepts. In...
Agency and autonomy : a formal framework. (1994)
Luck, Michael., D'Inverno, Mark.
Thesis.--University of Warwick, Dept. of Computer Science, 1994.
Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Chris Preist, Christine Guilfoyle, Sonia Bergamaschi, Paul Davidsson, ...
and the AgentLink Community. Supported by… ‘MOTOROLA, and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office’
Michael Luck, Peter Mcburney, Chris Preist, Christine Guilfoyle, Sonia Bergamaschi, Paul Davidsson, ...
and the AgentLink Community. Supported by… ‘MOTOROLA, and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office’