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ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Coping with Exceptions in Agent-Based Workflow Enactments
A workflow involves the coordinated execution of multiple operations and can be used to capture business processes. Typical workflow management systems are centralised and rigid; t...
Joey Sik Chun Lam, Frank Guerin, Wamberto Weber Va...
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Contribution to the Control of a MAS's Global Behaviour: Reinforcement Learning Tools
Reactive multi-agent systems present global behaviours uneasily linked to their local dynamics. When it comes to controlling such a system, usual analytical tools are difficult to ...
François Klein, Christine Bourjot, Vincent ...
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Peer Pressure as a Driver of Adaptation in Agent Societies
We consider a resource access control scenario in an open multi-agent system. We specify a mutable set of rules to determine how resource allocation is decided, and minimally assum...
Hugo Carr, Jeremy V. Pitt, Alexander Artikis
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Exception Handling in Goal-Oriented Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract. Cooperative, autonomous and distributed properties of multiagent systems deduce the dynamic capabilities of multi-agent system applications. On the other hand, these suit...
Ibrahim Cakirlar, Erdem Eser Ekinci, Oguz Dikenell...
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Interaction Biases in Multi-Agent Simulations: An Experimental Study
Abstract. How to ensure that two different implementations of a simulation will produce the same results ? In order to assure simulation reproducibility, some domain-independent fu...
Yoann Kubera, Philippe Mathieu, Sébastien P...
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Specifying Open Agent Systems: A Survey
Abstract. Electronic markets, dispute resolution and negotiation protocols are three types of application domain that can be viewed as open agent systems. Members of such systems a...
Alexander Artikis, Jeremy V. Pitt
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
From Multi-Agent to Multi-Organization Systems: Utilizing Middleware Approaches
Modern software systems share with social organizations the attributes of being large-scale, distributed, and heterogeneous systems of systems. The organizational metaphor for soft...
Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus, Daniel Moldt, Michael ...
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Reverse Engineering Form for Multi Agent Systems
The IODA methodology allows automated construction of models from an ontology, consisting of generic interactions that we can assign to families of agents. Thanks to the measuremen...
François Gaillard, Yoann Kubera, Philippe M...
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
From Individuals to Social and Vice-versa
The concept of cyclical influence between individuals and society is widely accepted, but hard to understand in all details. This paper proposes the use of three processes of socia...
André M. C. Campos, Frank Dignum, Virginia ...
ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Engineering Self-modeling Systems: Application to Biology
Complexity of today's systems prevents designers from knowing everything about them and makes engineering them a difficult task for which classical engineering approaches are ...
Carole Bernon, Davy Capera, Jean-Pierre Mano