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EPIA
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Modelling Agent Societies: Co-ordination Frameworks and Institutions
Organisations can be defined as a set of entities regulated by mechanisms of social order and created by more or less autonomous actors to achieve common goals. Multi-agent systems...
Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum
EASSS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Social Knowledge in Multi-agent Systems
This contribution presents a knowledge-based model of the agents’ mutual awareness (social knowledge) and justifies its role in various classes of applications of the concept of...
Vladimír Marík, Michal Pechoucek, Ol...
AOSE
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Lifecycle for Models of Large Multi-agent Systems
Two key issues in building multi-agent systems concern their scalability and engineering open systems. We offer solutions to these potential problems by introducing a lifecycle fo...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, David Stuart Robertson...
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Representing social structures in UML
From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, James Odell
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Argumentation as distributed constraint satisfaction: applications and results
Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or ju...
Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe, Shriniwas Kulkarni
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Automatically tracking and analyzing the behavior of live insect colonies
We introduce the study of live social insect colonies as a relevant and exciting domain for the development and application of multi-agent systems modeling tools. Social insects p...
Tucker R. Balch, Zia Khan, Manuela M. Veloso
KESAMSTA
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Structural Changes in an Email-Based Social Network
ent Artificial Immune Systems (MAAIS) for Intrusion Detection: Abstraction from Danger Theory Chung-Ming Ou, C.R. Ou Ants-like Agents: a Model and Analysis Based on Natural Ants Be...
Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Katarzyna Musial
CDC
2009
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Consensus of multi-agent systems with an active leader and asymmetric adjacency matrix
Abstract— Multi-agent systems (MAS) have received an increasing attention over the past few years. Here an MAS is a system consisted of multiple interacting intelligent agents. T...
Wanli Guo, Shihua Chen, Jinhu Lu, Xinghuo Yu
PAAMS
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Advantages of MAS for the Resolution of a Power Management Problem in Smart Homes
Abstract This paper contributes to the design of intelligent buildings. A MultiAgents Home Automation System (MAHAS) is proposed which controls appliances and energy sources in bui...
Shadi Abras, Sylvie Pesty, Stéphane Ploix, ...
ICAISC
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Evaluation of a Communication Platform for Safety Critical Robotics
As the number of handicapped people increases worldwide, Intelligent Wheelchairs (IW) are becoming the solution to enable a higher degree of independence for wheelchair users. In a...
Frederico M. Cunha, Rodrigo A. M. Braga, Luí...