This paper proposes a multi-agent system architecture based on introspective agents provided with an expressive communication language and reasoning capabilities on their skills. ...
— 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...
Incorporating coalition formation algorithms into agent systems shall be advantageous due to the consequent increase in the overall quality of task performance. Coalition formatio...
Self-organization is built upon two main building blocks: adaptive and uncoupled interaction mechanisms and context-awareness. Here we show how the middleware TOTA (Tuples On The ...
This paper presents the principles of a Home Automation System dedicated to power management that adapts power consumption to available power ressources according to user comfort a...