We introduce the study of live social insect colonies as a relevant and exciting domain for the development and application of multi-agent systems modeling tools. Social insects p...
Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or ju...
We present a computational study of an auction-based method for decentralized train scheduling. The method is well suited to the natural information and control structure of moder...
The reengineering and reverse engineering of software systems is gaining importance in software industry, because the accelerated turnover in software companies creates legacy sys...
Before the powerful agent programming paradigm can be adopted in commercial or industrial settings, a complete environment, similar to that for other programming languages, must b...
John R. Graham, Daniel McHugh, Michael Mersic, Fos...