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 generalises the theory of agent refinement from [1] to multi-agent systems in the presence of new coordination mechanisms extended with real time. The generalisation is ...
Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi D...
This paper introduces a model for Distributed Employee Timetabling Problems (DisETPs) and proposes a general architecture for solving DisETPs by using a Multi Agent System (MAS) pa...
Among features often attributed to software agents are autonomy and mobility. Autonomy of e-commerce agents involves adaptability to engage in negotiations governed by mechanisms ...
Abstract. This paper is part of a long term research program on multiagent systems (MASs), based on the proposition that the interactions among the members of a large and heterogen...
Wenxuan Zhang, Constantin Serban, Naftaly H. Minsk...