Organisational structures for multi-agent systems are usually defined independently of any spatial and temporal structure. Therefore, when the multi-agent system is situated in a ...
This paper describes the development of a distributed multi-agent workflow enacting mechanism starting from a BPEL4WS[BPE03] specification. Our work demonstrates that a multi-agent...
In a multi-agent system, the organization determines the architecture of the whole system, and the way and policies for agent collaboration and interactions. Although this is a key...
Design patterns have been recently concerned in the multi-agent community for the design of systems with decentralized coordination. In this paper we present a design pattern for d...
Performance analysis of agent network topologies helps multi-agent system developers to understand the impact of topology on system efficiency and effectiveness. Appropriate topol...
Hao Lan Zhang, Clement H. C. Leung, Gitesh K. Raik...