TY - CHAP AU - García Merayo, María De Las Mercedes AU - Núñez García, Manuel AU - Rodríguez Laguna, Ismael A4 - Arbab, F A4 - Sirjani, M PY - 2007 DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-75698-9_21 SN - 978-3-540-75697-2 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53130 AB - The behavior of e-commerce agents can be defined at different levels of abstraction. A formalism allowing to define them in terms of their economic activities, Utility State Machines, has been proposed. Due to its high level of abstraction, this... LA - eng M2 - 318 PB - SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN KW - Formal specification of multi-agent systems KW - Autonomous agents KW - E-commerce KW - Mediated electronic commerce KW - Semantics KW - Design TI - Formal specification of multi-agent systems by using EUSMs TY - book part ER -