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E4MAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Environments for Situated Multi-agent Systems: Beyond Infrastructure
There is a lot of confusion on what the environment of a multi-agent system (MAS) comprises. Sometimes, researchers refer to the environment as the logical entity of a MAS in which...
Danny Weyns, Giuseppe Vizzari, Tom Holvoet
E4MAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Architecture for MAS Simulation Environments
In this paper we discuss the model of an environment, acting as a first-class entity for MAS Simulation. To illustrate, we use the DIVAs framework’s design and implementation de...
Renee Steiner, Gary Leask, Rym Mili
E4MAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Environment-Based Methodology to Design Reactive Multi-agent Systems for Problem Solving
Abstract. Even if the multi-agent paradigm has been evolving for fifteen years, the development of concrete methods for problem solving remains a major challenge. This paper focus...
Olivier Simonin, Franck Gechter
E4MAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Governing Environment
Abstract. Whenever a multiagent system is designed, many dependencies in the system are identified and must be solved in a correct way. Coordination deals with the management of s...
Michael Schumacher, Sascha Ossowski
E4MAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Overhearing and Direct Interactions: Point of View of an Active Environment
Eric Platon, Nicolas Sabouret, Shinichi Honiden
E4MAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Survey of Environments and Mechanisms for Human-Human Stigmergy
Stigmergy (the coordination of agents through signs they make and sense in a shared environment) was originally articulated in the study of social insects. Its basic processes are ...
H. Van Dyke Parunak
E4MAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Augmenting the Physical Environment Through Embedded Wireless Technologies
Emerging pervasive computing technologies such as sensor networks and RFID tags can be embedded in our everyday environment to digitally store and elaborate a variety of informatio...
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
E4MAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Grounding Social Interactions in the Environment
Abstract. While agents and environments are two intimately connected concepts, most approaches for multi-agent development focus on the agent-specific part of the system, whereas ...
Florian Klein, Holger Giese