The coalition formation process, in which a number of independent, autonomous agents come together to act as a collective, is an important form of interaction in multi-agent system...
Existing task allocation algorithms generally do not consider the effects of task interaction, such as interference, but instead assume that tasks are independent. That assumptio...
Asynchronous Active Objects (AAOs), primarily exemplied by actors [1], nowadays exist in many forms (various kinds of actors, agents and components) and are more and more used beca...
This paper complements McCarthy's "The well designed child", in part by putting it in a broader context, the space of possible well designed progeny, and in part by...
Hybrid systems are models for complex physical systems and are defined as dynamical systems with interacting discrete transitions and continuous evolutions along differential equa...