Carlos Rodríguez-Lucatero, Jesús Sánchez-V., Sergio Castillo-V.
{"title":"Application of AOP for modeling a flexible manufacturing cell","authors":"Carlos Rodríguez-Lucatero, Jesús Sánchez-V., Sergio Castillo-V.","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699286","url":null,"abstract":"We present a proposal for using the agent oriented programming paradigm as a tool for modeling agents that represent a real manufacturing cell. The main motivation in using this programming paradigm is to give flexibility to manufacturing cells by exploiting the speech act theory (P.R. Cohen and C.R. Perrault, 1979).","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129764609","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}
J. Kephart, James E. Hanson, Deffrey O. Levine, Benjamin N. Grosof, J. Sairamesh, Richard B. Segal, Steve R. White
{"title":"Emergent behavior in information economies","authors":"J. Kephart, James E. Hanson, Deffrey O. Levine, Benjamin N. Grosof, J. Sairamesh, Richard B. Segal, Steve R. White","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699276","url":null,"abstract":"Our overall goal is to characterize and understand the dynamic behavior of very large open economies of automated information agents. Analysis and simulation of a simple information-filtering economy reveal both efficient self-organization of the brokers into specialized niches and endless price wars, depending on extrinsic costs.","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"415 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126696150","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":"On resource-oriented multi-commodity market computations","authors":"F. Ygge, H. Akkermans","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699221","url":null,"abstract":"In search for general equilibrium in multi-commodity markets, price-oriented schemes are normally used. That is, a set of prices (one price for each commodity) is updated until supply meets demand for each commodity. In some cases such an approach is very inefficient and a resource-oriented scheme can be highly competitive. In a resource-oriented scheme the allocations are updated until the market equilibrium is found. It is well known that in a two-commodity market resource-oriented schemes are possible. We show that resource-oriented algorithms can be used for the general multi-commodity case as well, and present and analyze a specific algorithm. The algorithm has been implemented and some performance properties, for a specific example, are presented.","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125702413","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":"Problem structure and subproblem sharing in multi-agent systems","authors":"Dorothy L. Mammen, V. Lesser","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699047","url":null,"abstract":"In multi-agent problem-solving systems in which agents work asynchronously and in parallel on parts of a problem distributed among them, subproblem communication and integration protocols can have a major impact on problem solving efficiency. Transmitting too soon can necessitate having to \"take back\" transmitted partial solutions, wasting communication and processing time. Transmitting too late can complicate integration of partial solutions derived independently. The trade-off between these depends on the nature of the subproblem interdependency among the agents. We present a parameterized distributed constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) generator and a parameterized multi-agent problem-solving simulator: Using these tools, we offer some empirical observations of the tradeoff between strategies for subproblem communication timing. Our goal is to derive domain-independent answers to questions of subproblem sharing in multi-agent systems for problems that can be represented within the CSP paradigm.","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121047587","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}
F. Brazier, Frank Cornelissen, R. Gustavsson, C. Jonker, O. Lindeberg, B. Polak, Jan Treur
{"title":"Compositional design and verification of a multi-agent system for one-to-many negotiation","authors":"F. Brazier, Frank Cornelissen, R. Gustavsson, C. Jonker, O. Lindeberg, B. Polak, Jan Treur","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699031","url":null,"abstract":"A compositional verification method for multi-agent systems is presented and applied to a multi-agent system for one-to-many negotiation in the domain of load balancing of electricity use. Advantages of the method are that the complexity of the verification process is managed by compositionality, and that parts of the proofs can be reused in relation to reuse of components.","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123775198","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}
K. Cetnarowicz, G. Dobrowolski, Marek Kisiel-Dorohinicki, E. Nawarecki
{"title":"Functional integrity of MAS through the dynamics of the agents' population","authors":"K. Cetnarowicz, G. Dobrowolski, Marek Kisiel-Dorohinicki, E. Nawarecki","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699235","url":null,"abstract":"In open multi-agent systems, i.e. systems in which agents of different kinds may join or leave the system, the problem of functional integrity seems to be of vast importance. The thesis discussed in this paper is that the number of agents in a multi-agent system can be an important characteristic of its dynamics and, in particular, constitute a base for evaluation of its functional integrity at a population level. Certain mechanisms which allow for controlling the number of agents- preserving their autonomy-have been also proposed.","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124998597","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":"Determining successful negotiation strategies: an evolutionary approach","authors":"Noyda Matos, C. Sierra, N. Jennings","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699048","url":null,"abstract":"To be successful in open, multi-agent environments, autonomous agents must be capable of adapting their negotiation strategies and tactics to their prevailing circumstances. To this end, we present an empirical study showing the relative success of different strategies against different types of opponent in different environments. In particular we adopt an evolutionary approach in which strategies and tactics correspond to the genetic material in a genetic algorithm. We conduct a series of experiments to determine the most successful strategies and to see how and when these strategies evolve depending on the context and negotiation stance of the agent's opponent.","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130319687","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":"An overview of the extended VUB ecosystem, a MAS of heterogeneous robots","authors":"A. Birk, Tony Belpaeme","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699230","url":null,"abstract":"The paper sketches the introduction of heterogeneity into a robotic multiagent system. The system is based on ideas from artificial life; it forms a kind of artificial ecosystem where the animats are linked together in their search for \"food\" in the form of electrical energy. Within this view, different robot types can be seen as different species.","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114488890","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":"Developing formal specifications to coordinate heterogeneous autonomous agents","authors":"Munindar P. Singh","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699063","url":null,"abstract":"We have been developing an approach for the distributed coordination of heterogeneous, autonomous agents. This approach takes as input (a) agent skeletons, giving compact descriptions of the given agents in terms of their events that are significant for coordination, as well as (b) relationships among the events occurring in these skeletons. A natural question is how may the skeletons and relationships be produced in the first place. Parunak (1996) proposed a methodology for designing multiagent systems based on Dooley graphs (1976) from discourse analysis. We show how with a few key modifications, Dooley graphs can also be used to generate the skeletons and relationships required for coordination. This combines the benefits of an intuitive methodology with a formal and distributed framework for developing multiagent systems from autonomous agents.","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123410759","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":"Agent cooperation: a Petri net based model","authors":"H. Fiorino, C. Tessier","doi":"10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699245","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose is to devise an operating model for systems involving several naturally distributed physical entities designed to achieve a predefined collective task. The model is based on the idea that two different types of functionalities are involved when designing cooperative agents: functionalities defining cooperation itself; and functionalities linked to cooperation implementation. Cooperation supposes the definition of the following three elements: each agent's local behaviour to take part in the collective task: his local goal, his possible decisions and actions; each agent's behaviour within the group: what he has to be committed to; a global criterion for cooperation assessment: this criterion concerns the current result of the cooperative task, the status of this result, and the status of the group.","PeriodicalId":244857,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Multi Agent Systems (Cat. No.98EX160)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121869359","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}