From a system's perspective as opposed to an individual agent perspective, MAS adaptation is now becoming an important topic, since it can help to obtain expected outcomes ...
Multi Agent Based Simulation (MABS) has been used mostly in purely social contexts. However, compared to other approaches, e.g., traditional discrete event simulation, object-orien...
Threshold agent networks (TANs) constitute a discretized modification of threshold (also known as neural) networks that are appropriate for modeling computer simulations. In this p...
In open MAS it is often a problem to achieve agents' interoperability. The heterogeneity of its components turns the establishment of interaction or cooperation among them in...
In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. ...