Recently, the design and development of
multiagent systems (MASs) has become increasingly concerned
with the recognition that they will be used in a dynamic
and open environment. In such environments, it is a very
difficult and complicated task to anticipate all possible
runtime situations at design time. In order to respond to
changes in this environment it is necessary to allow the
system to provide dynamic responses at runtime. This work
is concerned with one particular aspect of such...