667 research outputs found
08361 Abstracts Collection -- Programming Multi-Agent Systems
From 31th August to 5th September, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08361 ``Programming Multi-Agent Systems\u27\u27 was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl.
During the seminar, several participants presented their current
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of
the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of
seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section
describes the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
06261 Abstracts Collection -- Foundations and Practice of Programming Multi-Agent Systems
From 25.06.06 to 30.06.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06261 ``Foundations and Practice of Programming Multi-Agent Systems\u27\u27 was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl.
During the seminar, several participants presented their current
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of
the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of
seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section
describes the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
Reasoning about the safety of information: from logical formalization to operational definition
We assume that safety of information stored in a database depends on the
reliability of the agents who have performed the insertions in the database.
We present a logic S to represent information safety, and to derive answers
to standard queries and to safety queries. The design of this logic is based
on signaling act theory. Two strong simplifications lead to a logic S" with
two modalities to represent explicit beliefs and implicit beliefs. Then, we
present an operational view of S" in terms of First Order Logic, with meta
predicates, which is implemented by a Prolog meta program. lt is proved
that answers derived in S" and computed by the meta program are identical.
This property gives a clea.r meaning to computed answers.
Content areas: Epistemological foundations, Theorem proving, Logic
programming, Multi-agent systems
Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2011 - The Python-DTU Team
We provide a brief description of the Python-DTU system, including the
overall design, the tools and the algorithms that we plan to use in the agent
contest.Comment: 4 page
Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2010 - The Jason-DTU Team
We provide a brief description of the Jason-DTU system, including the
methodology, the tools and the team strategy that we plan to use in the agent
contest.Comment: 4 page
Evaluation of a Conversation Management Toolkit for Multi Agent Programming
The Agent Conversation Reasoning Engine (ACRE) is intended to aid agent
developers to improve the management and reliability of agent communication. To
evaluate its effectiveness, a problem scenario was created that could be used
to compare code written with and without the use of ACRE by groups of test
subjects.
This paper describes the requirements that the evaluation scenario was
intended to meet and how these motivated the design of the problem. Two
experiments were conducted with two separate sets of students and their
solutions were analysed using a combination of simple objective metrics and
subjective analysis. The analysis suggested that ACRE by default prevents some
common problems arising that would limit the reliability and extensibility of
conversation-handling code.
As ACRE has to date been integrated only with the Agent Factory multi agent
framework, it was necessary to verify that the problems identified are not
unique to that platform. Thus a comparison was made with best practice
communication code written for the Jason platform, in order to demonstrate the
wider applicability of a system such as ACRE.Comment: appears as Programming Multi-Agent Systems - 10th International
Workshop, ProMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 5, 2012, Revised Selected Paper
Separating Agent-Functioning and Inter-Agent Coordination by Activated Modules: The DECOMAS Architecture
The embedding of self-organizing inter-agent processes in distributed
software applications enables the decentralized coordination system elements,
solely based on concerted, localized interactions. The separation and
encapsulation of the activities that are conceptually related to the
coordination, is a crucial concern for systematic development practices in
order to prepare the reuse and systematic integration of coordination processes
in software systems. Here, we discuss a programming model that is based on the
externalization of processes prescriptions and their embedding in Multi-Agent
Systems (MAS). One fundamental design concern for a corresponding execution
middleware is the minimal-invasive augmentation of the activities that affect
coordination. This design challenge is approached by the activation of agent
modules. Modules are converted to software elements that reason about and
modify their host agent. We discuss and formalize this extension within the
context of a generic coordination architecture and exemplify the proposed
programming model with the decentralized management of (web) service
infrastructures
Commercial software tools for intelligent autonomous systems
This article identifies some of the commercial software tools that can potentially be examined, or relied upon for their techniques, within new EPSRC projects entitled "Reconfigurable Autonomy" and "Distributed Sensing and Control.." awarded and to be undertaken between Liverpool, Southampton and Surrey Universities in the next 4 years. Although such projects strive to produce new techniques of various kinds, the software reviewed here could also influence, shape and help to integrate the algorithmic outcome of all 16 projects awarded within the EPSRC Autonomous and Intelligent Systems programme early 2012. To avoid mis-representation of technololgies provided by the software producer companies listed, most of this review is based on using quotes from original product descriptions
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