KBSE
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
Engineering individual components of a multi-agent system and their interactions is a complex and error-prone task in urgent need of methods and tools. Prototyping is a valuable t...
ESAW
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. Multi-agent systems considered in the paper consist of a finite number of agents, positions of which can be changed by system actions, and of an evaluation function whic...
ESAW
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. Natural forming multi-agent systems have the ability to grow to enormous sizes and perform seemingly complex tasks without the existence of any centralized control. Their...
DALT
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
We introduce and motivate a non-standard multi-modal logic to represent and reason about ignorance in Multi-Agent Systems. We argue that in Multi-agent systems being able to reaso...
CAEPIA
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
The development of software systems is a complex task that requires support techniques to guide the process and solve inconsistencies in its . In the agent paradigm, the use of soc...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
This paper describes an agent application for the coordination of aircraft repair, refit, refuel, and rearm teams in a dynamic setting. The paper also presents a new algorithm fo...
AOSE
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
While multi-agent systems seem to provide a good basis for building complex software systems, this paper points out some of the drawbacks of classical “agent centered” multi-ag...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
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...
IAT
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Based on our previous work on the formal specification language SLABS as well as a methodology and modelling language for modelling and specifying multi-agent systems, we further ...
SELMAS
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Engineering non-trivial open multi-agent systems is a challenging task. Our research focusses on situated multi-agent systems, i.e. systems in which agents are explicitly...