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AOSE
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Activity Theory for the Analysis and Design of Multi-agent Systems
This paper shows how to verify a Multi-Agent System specification using human organization metaphors. This proposal applies Activity Theory, which has its roots in Sociology, to st...
Rubén Fuentes, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, ...
ARCS
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
How Efficient are Creatures with Time-shuffled Behaviors?
: The task of the creatures in the "creatures' exploration problem" is to visit all empty cells in an environment with a minimum number of steps. We have analyzed th...
Patrick Ediger, Rolf Hoffmann, Mathias Halbach
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Self-Organization in Multi Agent Systems: A Middleware Approach
Self-organization is built upon two main building blocks: adaptive and uncoupled interaction mechanisms and context-awareness. Here we show how the middleware TOTA (Tuples On The ...
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
DALT
2009
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
The Refinement of Choreographed Multi-Agent Systems
This paper generalises the theory of agent refinement from [1] to multi-agent systems in the presence of new coordination mechanisms extended with real time. The generalisation is ...
Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, Mehdi D...
ICMAS
2000
15 years 1 months ago
An Experimental Evaluation of Domain-Independent Fault Handling Services in Open Multi-Agent Systems
A critical challenge to creating effective open multi-agent systems is allowing them to operate effectively in the face of potential failures. In this paper we present an experimen...
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Mark Klein