Morality, protection, security and gain: lessons from a minimalistic, economically inspired multi-agent model

A Bio-inspired Multi-agent Control Framework

The biological world has often offered inspirations to novel approaches to solving engineering problems. This paper presents an engineering analogy of the human immune system, known as the artificial immune system (AIS) for the strategic control of multi-agent based systems such as fleet of autonomous guided vehicles or a multi-jointed manipulator. The human immune system is a complex, adaptive...

Model checking security protocols: a multi-agent system approach

We present a formalism for the automatic verification of security protocols based on multi-agent systems semantics. We give syntax and semantics of a temporal-epistemic security-specialised logic and provide a lazy-intruder model for the protocol rules that is arguably particularly suitable for verification purposes. We exemplify the technique by finding a (known) bug in the traditional NSPK pr...

Ecologically Inspired Agent Control Model

In a typical agent based system, a number of mobile agents cooperate to achieve a desired goal. The efficiency of the agent system in reaching the goal, and the completeness of the result depends on the number of agents in the system. Too few agents will not achieve the full potential of parallelism, and will lead to decreased system efficiency. Too many agents can overburden the system with un...

Biologically inspired heterogeneous multi-agent systems

Lessons from Kant: On Knowledge, Morality, and Beauty

Kant’s work contains numerous inspiring ideas regarding knowledge, morality, and beauty, and I will attempt to present some of them in this short essay. Following are very brief summaries of the main lessons that I suggest to take home. Knowledge is a synthesis of concepts and sensory data; it is never obtained by sheer accumulation of data (or facts); it is obtained by the organization of mean...