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COMMA
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Two-Agent Conflict Resolution with Assumption-Based Argumentation
Conflicts exist in multi-agent systems. Agents have different interests and desires. Agents also hold different beliefs and may make different assumptions. To resolve conflicts, ag...
Xiuyi Fan, Francesca Toni, Adil Hussain
AAMAS
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Multi-agent role allocation: issues, approaches, and multiple perspectives
In cooperative multi-agent systems, roles are used as a design concept when creating large systems, they are known to facilitate specialization of agents, and they can help to redu...
Adam Campbell, Annie S. Wu
IJAOSE
2010
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13 years 1 months ago
O-MaSE: a customisable approach to designing and building complex, adaptive multi-agent systems
: The complexity and scope of software systems continues to grow. One approach to dealing with this growing complexity is the use of intelligent, multi-agent systems. However, due ...
Scott A. DeLoach, Juan C. García-Ojeda
ICCCI
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
A Novel Formalism to Represent Collective Intelligence in Multi-agent Systems
In this paper we introduce a new formalism to represent multi-agent systems where resources can be exchanged among different agents by maximizing the utility of the agents conformi...
Juan José Pardo, Manuel Núñez...
WOA
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Multi-Agent Implementation of Social Networks
In this paper, we present a multi-agent system implementing a fully distributed Social Network System supporting user profiles as FOAF profiles. This system is built around the ide...
Enrico Franchi
WOA
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Multi-Agent Systems in the Industry. Three Notable Cases in Italy
This paper reports on three notable examples of the use of multi-agent systems in the Italian Industry. First, we introduce the topic and we outline some examples of real-world age...
Federico Bergenti, Eloisa Vargiu
PAAMS
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Open MAS Architecture. Providing Real Time Solutions
This presents a study in which a high level abstract architecture was used to design open multi-agent systems and virtual organizations that offer services with temporal constraint...
Martí Navarro, Sara Rodríguez, Vicen...
KESAMSTA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Towards an Integrated Approach of Real-Time Coordination for Multi-agent Systems
Real-time computations in multi-agent systems have been studied from different perspectives of reasoning, message passing, resource management and negotiations. Separate treatment...
Ghulam Mahdi, Abdelkader Gouaich, Fabien Michel
JOT
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
A Tool for Specifying and Validating Agents' Interaction Protocols: From Agent UML to Maude
To achieve the multi-agent systems’ goals, agents interact to exchange information, to cooperate and to coordinate their tasks. Interaction is generally recognized as an importa...
Farid Mokhati, Brahim Sahraoui, Soufiane Bouzaher,...
CLIMA
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Speculative Abductive Reasoning for Hierarchical Agent Systems
Answer sharing is a key element in multi-agent systems as it allows agents to collaborate towards achieving a global goal. However exogenous knowledge of the world can influence e...
Jiefei Ma, Krysia Broda, Randy Goebel, Hiroshi Hos...