Introduction to the Special Issue on Multi-agent Coordination and Control

Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems

It is now more than ten years since researchers in the US Knowledge Sharing Effort envisaged a future where complex systems could be built by combining knowledge and services from multiple knowledge bases and the first agent communication language, KQML, was proposed (Neches et al., 1991). This model of communication, based on speech acts, a declarative message content representation language a...

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences Special Issue on Psychomotor Coordination and Control Introduction to Special Issue on Psychomotor Coordination and Control

When people perform repeated goal-directed movements, consecutive movement durations inevitably vary over trials, in poor as well as in skilled performances. The well-established paradigm of precision-aiming is taken as a methodological framework here. Evidence is provided that movement variability in closed tasks is not a random phenomenon, but rather shows a coherent temporal structure, refer...

Introduction to the special issue on agent-based computational economics

A brief overview of agent-based computational economics (ACE) is given, followed by a synopsis of the articles included in this special issue on ACE and in a companion special issue on ACE scheduled to appear in Computational Economics. ( 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classixcation: B4; C6

Introduction to the special issue on agent autonomy in groups

This special issue of the Connection Science journal features ten papers on agent autonomy. The introduction describes the motivation for the special issue and briefly overviews the contributions. The papers in this volume are revised and extended version of selected papers from a workshop that was held in July 2002, in Edmonton, Canada, in conjunction with AAAI 2002 conference. This workshop f...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Shared Control: Applications