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ASGARD – A Graphical Monitoring Tool for Distributed Agent Infrastructures
[chapter]
2010
Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
method for monitoring and demonstrating Multi Agent System Infrastructures. ...
Monitoring the runtime behaviour of a distributed agent system for debugging or demonstration purposes provides a challenge to agent system developers. ...
Introduction Applications based on Multi Agent Systems (MAS) have gained more and more importance in software development during the recent years. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12384-9_21
dblp:conf/paams/TonnK10
fatcat:rvbxbmzizng5lb7flyubz5duxm
From Multi-Agent to Multi-Organization Systems: Utilizing Middleware Approaches
[chapter]
2009
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Modern software systems share with social organizations the attributes of being large-scale, distributed, and heterogeneous systems of systems. ...
We investigate the prospects of the middleware philosophy with respect to the engineering of large-scale systems following Organ. ...
The core metaphor of multi-agent system research is the individual agent, which is of rather small granularity. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02562-4_3
fatcat:pu6iew45uvdwxalpwqr5tohgga
Specification of Multi-Agent Systems in the Gamma Language
2006
2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
Given the dynamic and concurrent nature of multi-agent systems, we find that the chemical reaction metaphor provides a mechanism for describing the overall architecture of the distributed multi-agent systems ...
to model multi-agent systems (MASs) is justified by CRM's capacity in specifying dynamic features of multi-agent systems. ...
It is deemed that software engineering challenges in developing large-scale distributed systems can be overcome by an agent-based approach [2] . ...
doi:10.1109/ccece.2006.277624
dblp:conf/ccece/LinY06
fatcat:f7b3hchtfbendorstnb6ssr7hq
MASCF: A generic process-centered methodological framework for analysis and design of multi-agent supply chain systems
2007
Computers & industrial engineering
Multi-agent systems (MAS) are becoming popular for modeling complex systems such as supply chains. However, development of multi-agent systems remain quite involved and extremely time consuming. ...
, Gaia, for multi-agent supply chain system (MASCS) development. ...
Most of the multi-agent systems are based on some kind of metaphor with human-based organization being the most popular. ...
doi:10.1016/j.cie.2007.06.003
fatcat:mhikw45gabfs5awnkaofvfbhja
Towards Adaptive, Resilient and Self-organizing Peer-to-Peer Systems
[chapter]
2002
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
In order to pursue this idea, we are developing Anthill, a framework to support the design, implementation and evaluation of P2P applications based on ideas such as multi-agent and evolutionary programming ...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are characterized by decentralized control, large scale and extreme dynamism of their operating environment. ...
In order to pursue these ideas, we are developing Anthill, a novel framework for P2P application development, based on ideas such as multi-agent systems and evolutionary programming borrowed from CAS ...
doi:10.1007/3-540-45745-3_28
fatcat:m6jgsrku65hgfktgoqzxg5rsv4
A Catalog of Biologically-Inspired Primitives for Engineering Self-Organization
[chapter]
2004
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
to multi-agent systems. ...
The Amorphous Computing project is aimed at developing programming methodologies for systems composed of vast numbers of locallyinteracting, identically-programmed agents. ...
The author was supported in part by a grant from NSF on Quantum and Biologically Inspired Computing at MIT. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24701-2_4
fatcat:ytl2bmerqzdajhxt2555cxg62a
Towards a Cyber-physical Systems Resilience Approach based on Artificial Emotions and Multi-agent Systems
2020
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
In addition, one of our principal hypotheses in our research is that the multi-agent paradigm is suitable to integrate emotion-like processes into cyber-physical systems. ...
Our work aims to inspire from emotional processes to create an agent model that increases the resilience of cyber-physical systems. ...
An actuator Towards a Cyber-physical Systems Resilience Approach based on Artificial Emotions and Multi-agent Systems agent acts on the environment with its actuator module. ...
doi:10.5220/0009176203270334
dblp:conf/icaart/KouicemRO20
fatcat:oj63yoae7jf2pddo5x24qwmjpq
The Garden of Chances: A Visual Ecosystem
2000
Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Fig. 2 - 2 Multi-agent research cycle: multi-agent systems can provide tools to model and simulate these human and biological organizations that provide metaphors to design multi-agent systems, in an endless ...
As shown in Fig. 2 , multi-agent systems can provide tools to model and simulate these human and biological organizations that provide metaphors to design multi-agent systems, in an endless loop between ...
Glossary agent-autonomous software or robotic entity programmed using either psychological or biological metaphors, which rely both on its internal resources and on the perception of its environment to ...
doi:10.1162/002409400552342
fatcat:xue62ghs3vaqhpyq7n3uxs43re
Towards a Formal Conceptualization of Organizational Design Techniques for Large Scale Multi Agent Systems
2014
Procedia Technology - Elsevier
These embedded computers are increasingly autonomous and connected, and can thus be modeled as agents within multi-agent systems (MAS). ...
However given the current rate of development in electronics, we will soon have to manage large scale MAS (LSMAS) where millions of agents exist, collaborate and compete with each other. ...
While modern organizations cope with these requirements using various organizational methods, most large-scale multi-agent (LSMAS) proposals and solutions engage in engineering techniques. ...
doi:10.1016/j.protcy.2014.09.018
fatcat:zlyc7mxavjgvlpogdln7tokywe
Supporting Internet-scale multi-agent systems
2002
Data & Knowledge Engineering
AgentScape is a scalable agent-based distributed system described in this paper that aims at tackling these aspects. ...
The Internet provides a large-scale environment for (intelligent) software agents. ...
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 a brief overview is given of current research on agents. Aspects of large-scale agent systems are described in Section 3. ...
doi:10.1016/s0169-023x(02)00042-3
fatcat:vvxndmew5fcsnkufqiqhn7qu6y
Future Challenges for Autonomous Systems
[chapter]
2009
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
a very large community of interest, eager of innovations and creativity. ...
The domain of intelligent creatures, systems and entities is suffering today profound changes, and the pace of more than a hundred meetings (congresses, conferences, workshops) per year shows there is ...
Multi-agent organizations for current and next applications need to combine agent centered and organization points of view, to combine agent level and system level programming of organizational models, ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03226-4_3
fatcat:ilnpqtsrkfezpoxiizs2vnmesu
Large-scale, Small-scale Systems
[chapter]
2006
Cognitive Systems - Information Processing Meets Brain Science
has new insights to offer those researching the construction of artificial cognitive systems. ...
project is to examine recent progress in two major areas of research -computer science and neuroscience, and their related fields -and to understand whether progress in understanding cognition in living systems ...
as a multi-agent system, or 'super-organism' to achieve some overall goal. ...
doi:10.1016/b978-012088566-4/50005-2
fatcat:mr7mjjmsingjxoiia3yrblsvbq
Living Things Are Not (20th Century) Machines: Updating Mechanism Metaphors in Light of the Modern Science of Machine Behavior
2021
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Progress in both theory and practical applications requires the establishment of a novel conception of "machines as they could be," based on the profound lessons of biology at all scales. ...
At the same time, organicists point to the many unique features of life, especially at larger scales of organization, which have resisted decomposition analysis and artificial implementation. ...
We also thank Santosh Manicka and Vaibhav Pai for comments on early versions of this manuscript. ...
doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.650726
fatcat:hi6fq36rvffizcju23iwlj6axe
Multi-Agent Systems Meet GPU: Deploying Agent-Based Architectures on Graphics Processors
[chapter]
2013
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
In this paper, we investigate ways of improving execution performance of multi-agent systems (MAS) models by means of relevant task allocation mechanisms, which are suitable for GPU execution. ...
Even given today's rich hardware platforms, computation-intensive algorithms and applications, such as large-scale simulations, are still challenging to run with acceptable response times. ...
State-of-the-Art Agent-Oriented Programming [26] (including agent-based modeling simulation [27] ) is a fairly young thread in software development, which extends Object-Oriented modeling / programming ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37291-9_13
fatcat:l72x3xepzvdtfjbtzd2ojfmjmy
Chemical Reaction Metaphor in Distributed Learning Environments
[chapter]
2004
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
This paper presents an application of Chemical Reaction Metaphor (CRM) in agent-based distributed learning systems. ...
The suitability of using CRM to model multi-agent systems is justified by CRM's capacity in catching dynamic features of multi-agent systems in an e-learning environment. ...
We find that in chemical reaction metaphor, architectural properties of a multi-agent system can be expressed succinctly and precisely. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24677-0_88
fatcat:mu3ag25otbhwldr6u577yzrwoy
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