: Software agent technology has matured enough to produce intelligent agents, which can be used to control a large number of concurrent engineering tasks. Multi-agent systems are c...
Pericles A. Mitkas, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Dionisi...
In the last years, dozens of environments for modeling, testing and finally implementing multi-agent systems have been developed. Unfortunately, no standard criteria for understand...
This paper proposes the use of reliable group communication as a complement to traditional asynchronous messaging in multi-agent systems. In particular, the mechanism of message p...
The ‘engineering’ and ‘adaptive’ approaches to system production are distinguished. It is argued that producing reliable self-organised software systems (SOSS) will necessa...