Little-JIL, a new language for programming the coordination of agents is an executable, high-level process programming language with a formal (yet graphical) syntax and rigorously...
Alexander E. Wise, Aaron G. Cass, Barbara Staudt L...
We present a framework for coordinating autonomous planning agents. Together, these agents have to achieve a set of interdependent (elementary) tasks. Each of the agents receives a...
Linda tuple spaces are flat and unstructured, in the sense that they do not allow for expressing preferences of tuples; for example, we could be interested in indicating tuples th...
Mario Bravetti, Roberto Gorrieri, Roberto Lucchi, ...
In open systems where the components, i.e. the agents and the resources, may be unknown at design time, or in dynamic and self-organizing systems evolving with time, there is a ne...
A two stage approach to co-ordination in a multi-agent society is presented. The first stage involves agents learning to co-ordinate their activities based on local and global uti...