Agents are self-contained software entities which act faithfully and autonomously on behalf of a body of knowledge. They can operate in a standalone capacity, or as part of a social group collaborating and coordinating activities with other software agents. To access their knowledge, agents are interfaced with using message passing communication. The principle behind medical communications is t...

In this paper, we introduce a nonlinear time-varying coupling law, which can be designed in fully decentralized manner and achieves approximate synchronization with arbitrary precision, under only mild assumptions on the individual vector fields underlying (undirected) graph structure. The proposed law is motivated by so-called funnel control method studied adaptive observation that precision a...

Recently several authors have suggested that affordances are not mere possibilities for action but can also invite behavior. This reconceptualization of affordances asks for a reconsideration of the ecological approach to agency. After a portrayal of the role of agency in ecological psychology, we draw upon phenomenology to reveal what it means for an agent to be invited by affordances. We sket...

The rst part of this paper addresses Artiicial Life as an example of biologically inspired research. I discuss the general methodology and propose an interactive approach towards studying interactions and couplings of an agent within its social and non-social environment. Believ-ability and embodiment are introduced as central concepts to this approach. The second part of this paper gives four ...

Much effort has been devoted to the study of swarming and collective navigation of micro-organisms, insects, fish, birds and other organisms, as well as multi-agent simulations and to the study of real robots. It is well known that insect swarms can carry cargo. The studies here are motivated by a less well-known phenomenon: cargo transport by bacteria swarms. We begin with a concise review of ...

The hypothesis that brain organization is based on mechanisms of metastable synchronization in neural assemblies has been popularized during the last decades of neuroscientific research. Nevertheless, the role of body and environment for understanding the functioning of metastable assemblies is frequently dismissed. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the contribution of sensorimotor ...

Several types of hybrid catalysts are made through mixing of 4th generation Ziegler-Natta (ZN) and (2-PhInd)2ZrCl2  metallocene catalysts using triethylaluminum (TEA) as coupling agent. Response surface methodology (RSM) is used to evaluate the interactive effects of different parameters including amounts of metallocene and TEA and temperature on metallocene loading. Analyzing the amounts of Al...

A taxonomic classification of multiagent systems is constructed based on how the agents share resources. A formal description of a single intelligent agent is considered first. A system of multiple intelligent agents is viewed, formally, as a collection of these single agents. Coupling between agents is defined as the degree to which agents share resources. By analyzing the coupling between the...

This paper investigates the hypothesis that the motivational system of an autonomous agent should be operationally coupled with the world it is situated in. Operational coupling is structural coupling plus explicit representation of problem parameters that are observable and adjustable and relies on the definition of regulatory, inter-dependent innate desires. This coupling is such that the age...