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ECAI
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Run-Time Selection of Coordination Mechanisms in Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract. This paper presents a framework that enables autonomous agents to dynamically select the mechanism they employ in order to coordinate their inter-related activities. Adop...
Rachel A. Bourne, Cora B. Excelente-Toledo, Nichol...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A key-based coordination algorithm for dynamic readiness and repair service coordination
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...
Thomas Wagner, Valerie Guralnik, John Phelps
WOA
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Multi-Agent Systems as Composition of Observable Systems
Observation is becoming a crucial issue in the engineering of today's systems: the common practice for dealing with their complexity is to encapsulate their subcomponents abs...
Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini
ESWS
2009
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Towards an Agent Based Approach for Verification of OWL-S Process Models
Abstract. In this paper we investigate the transformation of OWL-S process models to ISPL - the system description language for MCMAS, a symbolic model checker for multi agent syst...
Alessio Lomuscio, Monika Solanki
CISIS
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Pattern-Based Coordination and Test Framework for Multi-Agent Simulation of Production Automation Systems
— Production automation systems consist of many entities (like robots and shuttles) that interact in complex ways to provide the overall system functionality like product assembl...
Thomas Moser, Munir Merdan, Stefan Biffl