Abstract. Agent-oriented system development aims to simplify the conn of complex systems by introducing a natural abstraction layer on top of the object-oriented paradigm composed ...
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Daniel Moldt, Win...
This paper presents a prototype dialogue system, K2, in which a user can instruct agents through speech input to manipulate various objects in a 3-D virtual world. The agents’ ac...
Systems such as software transactional memory and some exception handling techniques use transactions. However, a typical limitation of such systems is that they do not allow syst...
— This paper proposes distributed control laws for maintaining the shape of a formation of mobile autonomous agents in the plane for which the desired shape is defined in terms ...
Ming Cao, Brian D. O. Anderson, A. Stephen Morse, ...
Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...