We have been developing an approach for the distributed coordination of heterogeneous, autonomous agents. This approach takes as input (a) agent skeletons, giving compact descript...
This paper proposes a multi-agent system architecture based on introspective agents provided with an expressive communication language and reasoning capabilities on their skills. ...
This paper describes the specification, design and development of ACTIVE, a testbed for the testing and simulation of large-scale agent-based systems. ACTIVE is being developed as...
G. Emami, J. Cheng, D. Cornwell, M. Feldhousen, C....
We describe a language providing concepts for modeling autonomous entities (agents) and cooperating entities (groups). Agents are the execution units of a GroupLog program. Each a...
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...