This paper describes a novel approach for managing service-centric communications networks called distributed autonomic management (DAM). Current approaches to network management ...
Petri hypernets, a novel framework for modeling mobile agents based on nets-within-nets paradigm is presented. Hypernets employ a local and finitary character of interactions betw...
Marek A. Bednarczyk, Luca Bernardinello, Wieslaw P...
We report on a case study in the emergence of a lexicon in a group of autonomous distributed agents situated and grounded in an open environment. Because the agents are autonomous,...
In multi-agent systems, social commitments are increasingly used to capture roles, social norms, the semantics of agent communication as well as other inter-agent dependencies. Th...
Philippe Pasquier, Roberto A. Flores, Brahim Chaib...
We address the problem of navigating from an initial node to a goal node by a group of agents in an unknown physical environment. In such environments mobile agents must physicall...