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Environments in multiagent systems
June 2005
The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 20 Issue 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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There is a growing awareness in the multiagent systems research community that the environment plays a prominent role in multiagent systems. Originating from research on behavior-based agent systems and situated multiagent systems, the importance of ...

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Multiagent Systems: A Survey from a Machine Learning Perspective
June 2000
Autonomous Robots , Volume 8 Issue 3
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) has existed as a subfield of AI for less than two decades. DAI is concerned with systems that consist of multiple independent entities that interact in a domain. Traditionally, DAI has been divided into two sub-disciplines: ...


Keywords: communicating agents, heterogeneous agents, homogeneous agents, intelligent agents, machine learning, multiagent systems, pursuit domain, robotic soccer, robotics, survey
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Opportunities for multiagent systems and multiagent reinforcement learning in traffic control
June 2009
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems , Volume 18 Issue 3
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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The increasing demand for mobility in our society poses various challenges to traffic engineering, computer science in general, and artificial intelligence and multiagent systems in particular. As it is often the case, it is not possible to provide additional ...


Keywords: Coordination of agents, Game-theory, Multiagent learning, Multiagent systems, Reinforcement learning, Traffic signal control
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Graph-based methods for the analysis of large-scale multiagent systems
May 2009
AAMAS '09: Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1 , Volume 1
Publisher: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
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Multiagent systems are often characterized by complex, and sometimes unpredictable interactions amongst their autonomous components. While these systems can provide robust and scalable solutions to a variety of problems, the inherent complexity presents ...


Keywords: distributed systems, evaluation techniques, methodologies/languages
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Iterative software engineering for multiagent systems: the MASSIVE method
January 2001
Iterative software engineering for multiagent systems: the MASSIVE method
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
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Multiagent systems as software architecture: another perspective on software engineering with multiagent systems
May 2006
AAMAS '06: Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Publisher: ACM
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The trend in agent-oriented software engineering is to consider multiagent systems (MASs) as a radically new way of engineering software. This position isolates agent-oriented software engineering from mainstream software engineering and could ...

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A domain specific modeling language for multiagent systems
May 2008
AAMAS '08: Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 1 , Volume 1
Publisher: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
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Software systems are becoming more and more complex with a large number of interacting partners often distributed over a network. A common dilemma faced by software engineers in building complex systems is the lack of clear requirements and domain knowledge ...
Keywords: domain specific modeling language, metamodel, modeldriven development, transformations
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A platform-independent metamodel for multiagent systems
April 2009
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems , Volume 18 Issue 2
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Various agent-oriented methodologies and metamodels exist to design and develop multiagent systems (MAS) in an abstract manner. Frequently, these frameworks specialise on particular parts of the MAS and only few works have been invested to derive a common ...


Keywords: Agent modelling, Agent oriented, Agent oriented software engineering, BDI, JACK, JADE, Metamodelling, Model driven architecture, PIM, PIM4AGENTS, PSM
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Hybrid negotiation for resource coordination in multiagent systems
October 2005
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems , Volume 3 Issue 4
Publisher: IOS Press
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In this paper, we present a coordination approach to resource allocation problem in multiagent systems. Agents adaptively coordinate resources among themselves to handle resource shortage crises resulted from events they encounter in dynamic, uncertain, ...


Keywords: coordination, learning, multiagent systems, negotiation, resource allocation
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Performance measurement of multiagent systems: towards dependable MAS
March 2009
SpringSim '09: Proceedings of the 2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference
Publisher: Society for Computer Simulation International
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In this paper we discuss an inherent problem of multiagent systems (MAS), the validation of desired behavior of an agent as well as a MAS. MAS can adapt their behaviors to a dynamic environment. By the ability of adapting to a variety of changes in the ...


Keywords: multiagent systems, performance measurement, simulation
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Using asymmetric keys in a certified trust model for multiagent systems
February 2011
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal , Volume 38 Issue 2
Publisher: Pergamon Press, Inc.
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We present a contribution based on encryption to the model for the certification of trust in multiagent systems. The originality of the proposal remains in the use of asymmetric keys that allow the local storage of testimonies with the service agents ...
Keywords: Asymmetric keys, Multiagent systems, Reputation, Trust
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Developing organised multiagent systems using the MOISE+ model: programming issues at the system and agent levels
December 2007
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering , Volume 1 Issue 3/4
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
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Multiagent Systems (MASs) have evolved towards the specification of global constraints that heterogeneous and autonomous agents are supposed to follow when concerning open systems. A subset of these constraints is known as the MAS organisation. ...


Keywords: +, /, &, Jason, MAS, MAS organisations, MOISE&, SUP align=, SUP&, engineering organisations, gt, lt, middleware, multiiagent systems, open systems, programming, programming agents, right&
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Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
July 2003
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) , Volume 12 Issue 3
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Systems composed of interacting autonomous agents offer a promising software engineering approach for developing applications in complex domains. However, this multiagent system paradigm introduces a number of new abstractions and design/development ...


Keywords: Multiagent systems, agent-oriented software engineering, analysis and design methodologies, distributed systems, software architectures
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Multiagent systems engineering of organization-based multiagent systems
July 2005
SELMAS '05: Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Publisher: ACM
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In this paper, we examine the Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology and its applicability to developing organization-based multiagent systems, which are especially relevant to context aware systems. We discuss the inherent shortcomings of ...


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July 2005 SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30 Issue 4
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Elements of a business-level architecture for multiagent systems
May 2009
ProMAS'09: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
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Existing architectures for multiagent systems emphasize low-level messaging-related considerations. As a result, the programming abstractions they provide are also low level. In recent years, commitments have been applied to support flexible interactions ...
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A reference architecture for situated multiagent systems
May 2006
E4MAS'06: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
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A reference architecture integrates a set of architectural patterns that have proven their value for a family of applications. Such family of applications is characterized by specific functionality and quality requirements. A reference architecture provides ...

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Performance models for large scale multiagent systems: using distributed POMDP building blocks
July 2003
AAMAS '03: Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
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Given a large group of cooperative agents, selecting the right coordination or conflict resolution strategy can have a significant impact on their performance (e.g., speed of convergence). While performance models of such coordination or conflict resolution ...

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Exploiting organisational information for service coordination in multiagent systems
May 2008
AAMAS '08: Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 1 , Volume 1
Publisher: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
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Service-Oriented Computing and Agent Technology are nowadays two of the most active research fields in distributed and open systems. However, when trying to bridge the two worlds, it becomes apparent that the interaction-centric approach of multiagent ...
Keywords: multiagent systems, organisational concepts, semantic web services, service composition, service description
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Multiagent systems specification by UML statecharts aiming at intelligent manufacturing
July 2002
AAMAS '02: Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
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Multiagent systems are a promising new paradigm in computing, which are contributing to various fields. Many theories and technologies have been developed in order to design and specify multiagent systems, however, no standard procedure is used at present. ...


Keywords: agent-based software engineering, design implementation, intelligent manufacturing, methodologies for specification, multiagent systems, robotic soccer (RoboCup), statecharts, unified modeling language, validation standards for agents and multiagent systems
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Towards fault tolerance for multiagent systems
July 2005
AAMAS '05: Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Publisher: ACM
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There is a growing need for improving the fault tolerance in multiagent systems (MASs). In this thesis, we investigate it in two parts. The first part presents a monitoring approach which detects whether the design and implementation of a MAS is correct. ...


Keywords: heuristics, monitoring, replication, survivability
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