The individual agents that interact in a multi-agent system typically exist along a continuum ranging from heavyweight cognitive agents (often of the "BDI" type) to light...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Paul Nielsen, Sven Brueckner,...
This paper presents the principles of a Home Automation System dedicated to power management that adapts power consumption to available power ressources according to user comfort a...
: Multiagent Systems (MAS) are open, heterogeneous and distributed software systems of autonomous agents. The management of exception differs in MAS from what is known in usual eng...
— Intelligent Agents have originated a lot of discussion about what they are, and how they are different from general programs. We describe in this paper a new paradigm for intel...
The agent metaphor has shown its usefulness for modelling as well as implementing complex and dynamic applications. Although a number of agent applications has been successfully re...
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Dirk Bade, Karl-H...