It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
Abstract. A growing amounts of information are currently being generated and stored in the World Wide Web (WWW), in particular, researchers in any field can find a lot of publicati...
The present paper shows how vertical actuation alone may be used to effectively control the spatial distribution of mobile vehicles ("balloons" in air, or "drifters&...
The problem considered in the present article is optimal design of network topologies in multi-agent systems in order to make communication on the network as efficient as possible ...
When agents need to interact in order to solve some (possibly common) problem, resolving potential conflicts beforehand is often preferred to coordination during execution. Agents...