This work presents the core notions of a social reasoning mechanism, based on
dependence theory. This model enables an agent to reason about the others, in particular to …

This paper applies the two-party dependence theory (Castelfranchi, Cesta and Miceli, 1992,
in Y. Demazeau and E. Werner (Eds.) Decentralized AI-3, Elsevier, North Holland) to …

Coalition formation methods allow autonomous agents to join together in order to act as a
coherent group in which they increase their individual gains by collaborating with each …

Coalition formation in multi-agent systems (MAS) is becoming increasingly important as it
increases the ability of agents to execute tasks and maximize their payoffs. Dependence …

A modular object-oriented environment, called Expert-Coop++, designed to help the
implementation of open cognitive Multi-Agent Systems, under best effort soft real time …

Coordination is essential in distributed computing, which involves a group of loosely
coupled agents cooperating in order to solve problems in a decentralised fashion. One of …

This work presents the use of the Concurrent Autonomous Agent (CAA) in an Aldebaran
NAO humanoid robot. The NAO is a 25 degrees of freedom humanoid with a powerful …

A comparative evaluation among the Contract Net Protocol, the Coalition Based on
Dependence* and the Dynamic Social Knowledge cooperation strategies is presented in …

Abstract Mobile Robots and Autonomous Agents are very similar concepts that present
several common aspects. In particular, Multi-Robot Systems that are intended to perform …

A comparative evaluation among the Contract Net Protocol, the Coalition Based on
Dependence* and the Dynamic Social Knowledge cooperation strategies is presented in …