The ability to guarantee that a system will continue to operate correctly under degraded conditions is key to the success of adopting multi-agent systems (MAS) as a paradigm for d...
Abstract. Inheritance is one of the key features for the success of objectoriented languages. Inheritance (or specialisation) supports incremental design and re-use of already writ...
Evolution of multi-agent teams has been shown to be an effective method of solving complex problems involving the exploration of an unknown problem space. These autonomous and het...
Joshua Rubini, Robert B. Heckendorn, Terence Soule
Abstract— We present a formal framework for robotic cooperation in which we use an extension to Petri nets, known as workflow nets, to establish a protocol among mobile agents b...
Yehia Thabet Kotb, Steven S. Beauchemin, John L. B...
A synchronous system model is a simple yet powerful distributed system model that reduces the complexity of the design and implementation of dependable distributed applications. H...