{"title":"Software Agents, Agent Systems and Their Applications","authors":"M. Essaaidi","doi":"10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193688,"journal":{"name":"Software Agents, Agent Systems and Their Applications","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123692525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Agent Systems - Theory, Approaches and NASA Applications","authors":"M. Hinchey, Emil Vassev","doi":"10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2-181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2-181","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces the multi-agent paradigm and presents concepts and approaches related to multi-agent systems and paradigm-inspired popular research topics such as grid computing, intelligent swarms, sensor networks, service-oriented computing, cloud computing and autonomic computing. Additionally, the chapter reflects the authors’ experience and presents a review of the NASA multi-agent applications of ground control and space-exploration systems. The Multi-Agent Systems approach helps NASA systems deal efficiently with huge amounts of data and to perform unmanned tasks in deep space where single monolith spacecraft are impractical.","PeriodicalId":193688,"journal":{"name":"Software Agents, Agent Systems and Their Applications","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114860743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling Multi-Agent Systems with AML","authors":"R. Cervenka","doi":"10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193688,"journal":{"name":"Software Agents, Agent Systems and Their Applications","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125996574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JADE: Java Agents DEvelopment Framework","authors":"Giovanni Caire","doi":"10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2-28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2-28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193688,"journal":{"name":"Software Agents, Agent Systems and Their Applications","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131408970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Agent Planning","authors":"A. E. Seghrouchni, Muhammad Adnan Hashmi","doi":"10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2-130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-818-2-130","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-agent planning is an important issue in the multi-agent systems domain, that poses a number of challenges. As the agents are working in the same environment, they do not have only to plan their actions but also to coordinate their plans, so that they do not have any conflicts among them. It requires both an adequate plan representation and efficient interacting methods allowing agents to coordinate their plans. This chapter tries to answer the following questions: (1) What is multi-agent planning. (2) What are some of its important issues. (3) What are some of the important techniques of multi-agent planning and how can they be classified. We present two techniques in detail. The first one is a recursive model for the representation and the handling of plans by means of Recursive Petri Nets (RPN) which support the specification of concurrent activities, reasoning about simultaneous actions and continuous processes, a theory of verification and mechanisms of transformation (e.g. abstraction, refinement, merging). And in the second one, we describe how an agent can modify his temporal plan, when another agent comes up with a higher priority plan. As the latter has more priority, the former should modify his plan to remove any conflicts.We present a plan merging algorithm supported by a plan repairing algorithm to cope with this situation.","PeriodicalId":193688,"journal":{"name":"Software Agents, Agent Systems and Their Applications","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128582644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}