Objective Coordination In Multi Agent System Engineering

Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
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Release : 2003-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540449331

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Based on a suitably defined coordination model distinguishing between objective (inter-agent) coordination and subjective (intra-agent) coordination, this book addresses the engineering of multi-agent systems and thus contributes to closing the gap between research and applications in agent technology. After reviewing the state of the art, the author introduces the general coordination model ECM and the corresponding object-oriented coordination language STL++. The practicability of ECM/STL++ is illustrated by the simulation of a particular collective robotics application and the automation of an e-commerce trading system. Situated at the intersection of behavior-based artificial intelligence and concurrent and distributed systems, this monograph is of relevance to the agent R&D community approaching agent technology from the distributed artificial intelligence point of view as well as for the distributed systems community.

Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
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Release : 2001-04-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540419829

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Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent System Engineering by Michael Schumacher Pdf

Based on a suitably defined coordination model distinguishing between objective (inter-agent) coordination and subjective (intra-agent) coordination, this book addresses the engineering of multi-agent systems and thus contributes to closing the gap between research and applications in agent technology. After reviewing the state of the art, the author introduces the general coordination model ECM and the corresponding object-oriented coordination language STL++. The practicability of ECM/STL++ is illustrated by the simulation of a particular collective robotics application and the automation of an e-commerce trading system. Situated at the intersection of behavior-based artificial intelligence and concurrent and distributed systems, this monograph is of relevance to the agent R&D community approaching agent technology from the distributed artificial intelligence point of view as well as for the distributed systems community.

Author : Alessandro Garcia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540087724

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Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems by Alessandro Garcia Pdf

Nowadays, engineering large-scale software systems means dealing with complex systems composed of pervasive software components that move around and adapt to nondeterministic and open environments, like the Internet, in order to achieve systems design goals through the coordination of autonomously distributed services. The agent metaphor, in particular software agents and multi-agent systems (MAS), constitutes a promising approach for covering most of the software development life cycle, from conceptual modeling and requirements specification to architectural definition, design, and implementation. This book presents 17 carefully reviewed papers arranged in order to provide a coherent survey of how to exploit agent properties and MAS issues in today's software systems. The book offers the following topical sections: - software engineering foundations - requirements engineering and software architecture - coordination and mobility - reuse -dependability -empirical studies and applications

Author : Matthias Klusch,Sonia Bergamaschi,Pete Edwards,Paolo Petta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540365617

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Intelligent Information Agents by Matthias Klusch,Sonia Bergamaschi,Pete Edwards,Paolo Petta Pdf

This book presents 10 chapters on various aspects of intelligent information agents contributed by members of the respective AgentLink special interest group. The papers are organized in three parts on agent-based information systems, adaptive information agents, and coordination of information agents. Also included are a comprehensive introduction and surveys for each of the three parts.

Author : Louise A. Dennis,Rafael H. Bordini,Yves Lespérance
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030514174

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems by Louise A. Dennis,Rafael H. Bordini,Yves Lespérance Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2019. The 13 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 20 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: Multi-Agent Interaction and Organization; Simulation; Social Awareness and Explainability; Learning and Reconfiguration; and Implementation Techniques and Tools.

Author : Danny Weyns,H. Van Dyke Parunak,Fabien Michel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540322597

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Environments for Multi-Agent Systems by Danny Weyns,H. Van Dyke Parunak,Fabien Michel Pdf

The modern ?eld of multiagent systems has developed from two main lines of earlier research. Its practitioners generally regard it as a form of arti?cial intelligence (AI). Some of its earliest work was reported in a series of workshops in the US dating from1980,revealinglyentitled,“DistributedArti?cialIntelligence,”andpioneers often quoted a statement attributed to Nils Nilsson that “all AI is distributed. ” The locus of classical AI was what happens in the head of a single agent, and much MAS research re?ects this heritage with its emphasis on detailed modeling of the mental state and processes of individual agents. From this perspective, intelligenceisultimatelythepurviewofasinglemind,thoughitcanbeampli?ed by appropriate interactions with other minds. These interactions are typically mediated by structured protocols of various sorts, modeled on human conver- tional behavior. But the modern ?eld of MAS was not born of a single parent. A few - searchershavepersistentlyadvocatedideasfromthe?eldofarti?ciallife(ALife). These scientists were impressed by the complex adaptive behaviors of commu- ties of animals (often extremely simple animals, such as insects or even micro- ganisms). The computational models on which they drew were often created by biologists who used them not to solve practical engineering problems but to test their hypotheses about the mechanisms used by natural systems. In the ar- ?cial life model, intelligence need not reside in a single agent, but emerges at the level of the community from the nonlinear interactions among agents. - cause the individual agents are often subcognitive, their interactions cannot be modeled by protocols that presume linguistic competence.

Author : Magdi S. Mahmoud
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000078022

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Multiagent Systems by Magdi S. Mahmoud Pdf

Multiagent systems (MAS) are one of the most exciting and the fastest growing domains in the intelligent resource management and agent-oriented technology, which deals with modeling of autonomous decisions making entities. Recent developments have produced very encouraging results in the novel approach of handling multiplayer interactive systems. In particular, the multiagent system approach is adapted to model, control, manage or test the operations and management of several system applications including multi-vehicles, microgrids, multi-robots, where agents represent individual entities in the network. Each participant is modeled as an autonomous participant with independent strategies and responses to outcomes. They are able to operate autonomously and interact pro-actively with their environment. In recent works, the problem of information consensus is addressed, where a team of vehicles communicate with each other to agree on key pieces of information that enable them to work together in a coordinated fashion. The problem is challenging because communication channels have limited range and there are possibilities of fading and dropout. The book comprises chapters on synchronization and consensus in multiagent systems. It shows that the joint presentation of synchronization and consensus enables readers to learn about similarities and differences of both concepts. It reviews the cooperative control of multi-agent dynamical systems interconnected by a communication network topology. Using the terminology of cooperative control, each system is endowed with its own state variable and dynamics. A fundamental problem in multi-agent dynamical systems on networks is the design of distributed protocols that guarantee consensus or synchronization in the sense that the states of all the systems reach the same value. It is evident from the results that research in multiagent systems offer opportunities for further developments in theoretical, simulation and implementations. This book attempts to fill this gap and aims at presenting a comprehensive volume that documents theoretical aspects and practical applications.

Author : Paul Scerri,Régis Vincent,Roger T. Mailler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387279725

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Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems by Paul Scerri,Régis Vincent,Roger T. Mailler Pdf

Challenges arise when the size of a group of cooperating agents is scaled to hundreds or thousands of members. In domains such as space exploration, military and disaster response, groups of this size (or larger) are required to achieve extremely complex, distributed goals. To effectively and efficiently achieve their goals, members of a group need to cohesively follow a joint course of action while remaining flexible to unforeseen developments in the environment. Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems provides extensive coverage of the latest research and novel solutions being developed in the field. It describes specific systems, such as SERSE and WIZER, as well as general approaches based on game theory, optimization and other more theoretical frameworks. It will be of interest to researchers in academia and industry, as well as advanced-level students.

Author : Thomas A. Wagner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781402078682

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An Application Science for Multi-Agent Systems by Thomas A. Wagner Pdf

An Application Science For Multi-Agent Systems addresses the complexity of choosing which multi-agent control technologies are appropriate for a given problem domain or a given application. Without such knowledge, when faced with a new application domain, agent developers must rely on past experience and intuition to determine whether a multi-agent system is the right approach, and if so, how to structure the agents, how to decompose the problem, and how to coordinate the activities of the agents, and so forth. This unique collection of contributions, written by leading international researchers in the agent community, provides valuable insight into the issues of deciding which technique to apply and when it is appropriate to use them. The contributions also discuss potential trade-offs or caveats involved with each decision. An Application Science For Multi-Agent Systems is an excellent reference for anyone involved in developing multi-agent systems.

Author : Danny Weyns,H. Van Dyke Parunak,Fabien Michel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540326151

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Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II by Danny Weyns,H. Van Dyke Parunak,Fabien Michel Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Environments for Multiagent Systems, E4MAS 2005, held in July 2005. The 16 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the lectures given at the workshop. The papers are organized in topical sections on models, architecture, and design, mediated coordination, as well as applications.

Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3662187795

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Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent System Engineering by Michael Schumacher Pdf

Author : Danny Weyns,Sven A. Brueckner,Yves Demazeau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540850281

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Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems by Danny Weyns,Sven A. Brueckner,Yves Demazeau Pdf

Software intensive systems are increasingly expected to deal with changing user needs and dynamic operating conditions at run time. Examples are the need for life recon?gurations, management of resource variability, and dealing with p- ticular failure modes. Endowing systems with these kinds of capabilities poses severe challenges to software engineers and necessitates the development of new techniques, practices, and tools that build upon sound engineering principles. The ?eld of multi-agent systems focuses on the foundations and engineering of systems that consists of a network of autonomous entities (agents) that int- act to achieve the system goals. One line of research in multi-agent systems, inspired by biological, physical and other naturally occurring systems, concerns multi-agent systems in which agents share information and coordinate their - havior througha shared medium called an agentenvironment. Typical examples are gradient ?elds and digital pheromones that guide agents in their local c- text and as such facilitate the coordination of a community of agents. Since environment-mediation in multi-agent systems has shown to result in mana- able solutions with very adaptable qualities, it is a promising paradigm to deal with the increasing complexity and dynamism of distributed applications. Control in environment-mediated multi-agent systems is decentralized, i. e. , noneofthecomponentshasfullaccessorcontroloverthesystem. Self-organization isanapproachtoengineerdecentralized,distributedandresource-limitedsystems thatarecapableofdynamicallyadaptingtochangingconditionsandrequirements without external intervention. This useful system property is often re?ected in functionssuchasself-con?guration,self-optimization,andself-healing. Engine- ing approaches to self-organizing systems often rely on global functionality to emerge from localand autonomous decisions of individual agents that commu- catethroughasharedagentenvironment.

Author : Alessandro Garcia,Ricardo Choren,Carlos Lucena,Paolo Giorgini,Tom Holvoet,Alexander Romanovsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540335801

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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV by Alessandro Garcia,Ricardo Choren,Carlos Lucena,Paolo Giorgini,Tom Holvoet,Alexander Romanovsky Pdf

This book presents a coherent, well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the design and analysis of realistic large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). The chapters included are devoted to various techniques and methods used to cope with the complexity of real-world MAS. Reflecting the importance of agent properties in today's software systems, the power of agent-based software engineering is illustrated using examples that are representative of successful applications.

Author : Hans-Dieter Burkhard,Gabriela Lindemann,Rineke Verbrugge,Laszlo Varga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540752547

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V by Hans-Dieter Burkhard,Gabriela Lindemann,Rineke Verbrugge,Laszlo Varga Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2007, held in Leipzig, Germany, September 25-27, 2007. The 29 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of areas.

Author : Olivier Boissier,Julian Padget,Virginia Dignum,Gabriela Lindemann,Eric T Matson,Sascha Ossowski,Jaime Sichman,Javier Vázquez-Salceda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540351764

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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems by Olivier Boissier,Julian Padget,Virginia Dignum,Gabriela Lindemann,Eric T Matson,Sascha Ossowski,Jaime Sichman,Javier Vázquez-Salceda Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multiagent Systems, ANIREM 2005, and the International Workshop on Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005. This is the first volume in a new series on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. Topics include modeling, analyzing and programming organizations and more.