Abstract. Taxonomies in the area of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) classify problems according to the underlying principles and assumptions of the agents’ abilities, rationality and i...
The DEFACTO system is a multiagent based tool for training incident commanders for large scale disasters. In this paper, we highlight some of the lessons that we have learned from...
Nathan Schurr, Pratik Patil, Frederic H. Pighin, M...
Product Distribution (PD) theory was recently developed as a framework for analyzing and optimizing distributed systems. In this paper we demonstrate its use for adaptive distribu...
Coordinating agents in a complex environment is a hard problem, but it can become even harder when certain characteristics of the tasks, like the required number of agents, are un...
Multi agent learning systems pose an interesting set of problems: in large environments agents may develop localised behaviour patterns that are not necessarily optimal; in a pure...