Multi-agent systems benefit greatly from an organization design that guides agents in determining when to communicate, how often, with whom, with what priority, and so on. However...
Huzaifa Zafar, Victor R. Lesser, Daniel D. Corkill...
Multi-agent teamwork is critical in a large number of agent applications, including training, education, virtual enterprises and collective robotics. The complex interactions of ag...
Ranjit Nair, Milind Tambe, Stacy Marsella, Taylor ...
The Esprit project PRODNET II1 (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a support in...
This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
In this paper, we present an Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)-based decentralized allocation enforcement system, developed with an emphasis on a consistent data model and ea...