Before the powerful agent programming paradigm can be adopted in commercial or industrial settings, a complete environment, similar to that for other programming languages, must b...
John R. Graham, Daniel McHugh, Michael Mersic, Fos...
Hierarchies are one of the most common organizational structures observed in multi-agent systems. In this paper we study vertical specialization as a reason for hierarchical struc...
In this paper, we study a simple means for coordinating teams of simple agents. In particular, we study ant robots and how they can cover terrain once or repeatedly by leaving mar...
Agent description and discovery (ADD) is a critical infrastructure for open multi-agent services. As multi-agent systems grow larger and more diverse, it becomes harder to locate ...
What reasoning patterns do agents use to choose their actions in games? This paper studies this question in the context of Multi-Agent Influence Diagrams (MAIDs). It defines sev...