This paper discusses a general architecture for intelligent software agents. It can be used to construct agents that engage in high-level reasoning by employing standard reasoning...
Mengqiu Wang, Martin K. Purvis, Mariusz Nowostawsk...
Stigmergy is usually associated with semantically simple problems such as routing. It can be applied to more complex problems by encoding them in the environment through which sti...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Robert B...
This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for constructing and reasoning about mobile agents. The framework is formulated as a process calculus and has two contrib...
We consider multiagent systems situated in unpredictable environments. Agents viewed as abductive logic programs with abducibles being literals the agent could sense or receive fro...
Hierarchies are one of the most common organizational structures observed in multi-agent systems. In this paper we study vertical specialization as a reason for hierarchical struc...