Autonomy vs. Conformity: An Institutional Perspective on Norms and Protocols
Huib Aldewereld · The Knowledge Engineering Review · 2009
selectivity.The restriction of selectivity is mainly compelled by the specific characteristics of large-scale multi-agent systems.In such settings, it is reasonable to assume that the overhearing resources will be essentially limited, thus allowing the overhearing agent to overhear only a subset of inter-agent communications.Most previous investigations on overhearing ignore the limitation of selectivity, assuming that all relevant interagent communications can be overheard.In contrast, our work provides an empirical study of selective overhearing committed by both centralized and distributed teams of collaborative overhearing agents.