JNCA
2007
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Cooperation and autonomy are two antagonistic core variables of agent-based systems, and a key challenge in designing such systems is to balance these variables appropriately. Thi...
CORR
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2006
Springer
The Unified Software Development Process (USDP) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) have been now generally accepted as the standard methodology and modeling language for developin...
AOIS
2003
14 years 6 days ago
2003
Numerous methodologies for developing agent-based systems have been proposed in the literature. However, their application is still limited due to their lack of maturity. Evaluati...
ETFA
2008
IEEE
14 years 17 days ago
2008
IEEE
Modern trends in manufacturing demand more flexible and adaptive handling of production order execution. Due to its distributed nature, agent-based systems become a suitable solut...
FAABS
2000
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2000
Springer
Abstract. Agent-based systems that are composed of simple locally interacting agents but which demonstrate complex group behavior o er several advantages over traditional multi-age...
FAABS
2000
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2000
Springer
Much work in the field of agent-based systems has tended to focus on either the development of practical applications of agent systems on the one hand, or the development of sophis...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper examines agent-based systems designed for a variety of human learning tasks. These are typically split into two areas: "training", which generally refers to a...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
The current state of the art in agent technology sees that several implementations of agent frameworks exist. However, there is little agreement on the terms and concepts used to ...
ICFEM
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1997
Springer
Previous work has addressed the development of a framework to categorise and understand agent-based systems. It described and formalised an agent-hierarchy that included objects, ...
AGENTS
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1998
Springer
While the theoretical and experimental foundations of agent-based systems are becoming increasingly well understood, comparatively little effort has been devoted to understanding ...