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AOSE
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Activity Theory for the Analysis and Design of Multi-agent Systems
This paper shows how to verify a Multi-Agent System specification using human organization metaphors. This proposal applies Activity Theory, which has its roots in Sociology, to st...
Rubén Fuentes, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, ...
ARCS
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
How Efficient are Creatures with Time-shuffled Behaviors?
: The task of the creatures in the "creatures' exploration problem" is to visit all empty cells in an environment with a minimum number of steps. We have analyzed th...
Patrick Ediger, Rolf Hoffmann, Mathias Halbach
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Self-Organization in Multi Agent Systems: A Middleware Approach
Self-organization is built upon two main building blocks: adaptive and uncoupled interaction mechanisms and context-awareness. Here we show how the middleware TOTA (Tuples On The ...
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
DALT
2009
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
The Refinement of Choreographed Multi-Agent Systems
This paper generalises the theory of agent refinement from [1] to multi-agent systems in the presence of new coordination mechanisms extended with real time. The generalisation is ...
Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi D...
ICMAS
2000
13 years 10 months ago
An Experimental Evaluation of Domain-Independent Fault Handling Services in Open Multi-Agent Systems
A critical challenge to creating effective open multi-agent systems is allowing them to operate effectively in the face of potential failures. In this paper we present an experimen...
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Mark Klein