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MMAS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Fault-Tolerant Massively Multiagent Systems
Abstract. In order to construct and deploy massively multiagent systems, we must address one of the fundamental issues of distributed systems, the possibility of partial failures. ...
Zahia Guessoum, Jean-Pierre Briot, Nora Faci
MATES
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
C-IPS: Specifying Decision Interdependencies in Negotiations
Negotiation is an important mechanism of coordination in multiagent systems. Contrary to early conceptualizations of negotiating agents, we believe that decisions regarding the neg...
Kay Schröter, Diemo Urbig
DALT
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Model Checking Agent Dialogues
In this paper we address the challenges associated with the verification of correctness of communication between agents in MultiAgent Systems. Our approach applies model-checking ...
Christopher D. Walton
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Issues in Multiagent System Development
Methodologies for multiagent system development should assist the developer in making decisions about those aspects of the analysis, design and implementation, that are crucial fo...
Mehdi Dastani, Joris Hulstijn, Frank Dignum, John-...
AOSE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Enacting and Deacting Roles in Agent Programming
In the paper we study the dynamics of roles played by agents in multiagent systems. We capture role dynamics in terms of four operation performed by agents: ‘enactment’, ‘dea...
Mehdi Dastani, Birna van Riemsdijk, Joris Hulstijn...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Using game days to teach a multiagent system class
Multiagent systems is an attractive problem solving approach that is becoming ever more feasible and popular in today’s world. It combines artificial intelligence (AI) and distr...
Leen-Kiat Soh
SELMAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Engineering Organization-Based Multiagent Systems
In this paper, we examine the Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology and its applicability to developing organization-based multiagent systems, which are especially rele...
Scott A. DeLoach
GECCO
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
A resource-allocation mechanism for multiagent networks
The nature of computer networks and the manner in which network services are provided are changing dramatically. Network architectures that employ virtual mobile agents to provide...
Vishakh, Nicholas Urrea, Tadashi Nakano, Tatsuya S...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a theory of "local to global" in distributed multi-agent systems (II)
a growing need to study abstract problems in distributed multi-agent systems in a systematic way, as well as to provide a qualitative mathematical framework in which to compare po...
Daniel Yamins
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Multiagent coordination by Extended Markov Tracking
We present here Extended Markov Tracking (EMT), a computationally tractable method for the online estimation of Markovian system dynamics, along with experimental support for its ...
Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein