—Multi-agent systems are difficult to develop. One reason for this is that agents are embedded in a society where all agents must agree to obey certain social norms in order for...
Recently, mobile agents have been proposed for efficient data dissemination in sensor networks [1-6]. In the traditional client/server-based computing architecture, data at multip...
This paper surveys the current state of the art in agentoriented software engineering, focusing on the area of coordinated multi-agent systems. In multi-agent systems, the interac...
ObjectAgent is an agent-based, message-passing software architecture that utilizes natural language processing to provide autonomous control to complex systems. As a form of distr...
In the realization of agent-based applications the developer generally needs to use heterogeneous agent architectures, so that each application component can optimally perform its...