Multi-party Conversational Systems are systems with natural language interaction between
one or more people or systems. From the moment that an utterance is sent to a group, to the …

Current existing chatbot engines do not properly handle a group chat with many users and
many chatbots. This prevents chatbots from developing their full potential as social …

Abstract In Open Multi-Agent Systems (Open MAS), no central authority can control all the
agents. The agents share some features like: heterogeneity, different aims and objectives …

This paper presents Ravel, a multiagent systems (MAS) platform aimed to integrate natural
language understanding components with orchestration components of dialogues between …

In a multiagent system, a (social) norm describes what the agents may expect from each
other. Norms promote autonomy (an agent need not comply with a norm) and heterogeneity …

There has been much research about frameworks and tools to build multi-agent systems in
different domains in recent years. These systems have particular features such as autonomy …

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 …

Environment is an essential part of any multi-agent system (MAS), since it provides the
surrounding conditions for agents to exist. For some sort of systems, the environment can be …

In open multi-agent systems, agents must accord social conventions in order to maintain the
predictable integration. Usually, these social conventions are hard coded, leading to …

As new software demands and requirements appear, the system and its interaction laws
must evolve to support these changes. Languages and models should provide the tools for …