This thesis describes an investigation of self-organising, distributed control of dynamic, nonlinear systems. The distribution is achieved through a multi-agent based approach. The self-organisation is addressed through reinforcement learning. The feasibility is tested using a well-established agent framework: JADE. The target system for the study is a simulation of a well-known laboratory demo...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a well-known example of a complex system. Classical computing technologies have shown little success in modeling complex systems. However, a large body of research in multi-agent system (MAS) technology has demonstrated how complex systems can be modeled to generate smart solutions, which could not be done otherwise. We have researched on the design and developm...

Automorphosis viewed in terms of IT systems requires that these systems have a range of features related to autonomy, dispersion of their components, and communication between their elements. Examples of IT systems in which the issue of automorphosis is an important modelling aspect include software agent societies where individual agent units create structures that specialise in performance of...

We describe the usage of the Multi-agent system in the data preprocessing stage of an on-going project, called eWedding. The aim of this project is to utilize MAS and various approaches, like Web services, Ontology, and Data mining techniques, in e-Business that want to improve responsiveness and efficiency of systems so as to extract customer behavior model on Wedding Businesses. However, in t...

This paper presents and discusses a first complete example of the use of JADEL. JADEL is a novel agent-oriented domain-specific programming language built on top of JADE, the well-known agent platform which provides solid agent technology and several tools for the creation of agents and multi-agent systems. The purpose of JADEL is to make the development of JADE agents and multi-agent systems e...

This paper summarizes the work done in the course of the Jade project, which deals with automatic debugging of Java programs. Besides a brief introduction to the Jade project, models developed to debug Java programs are evaluated and results are presented. Furthermore, insights gained from the results are discussed and topics for further research are identified.

The objective of this paper is to develop Arduino based Multi Agent System (MAS) for advanced demand side management of a solar micro-grid. High penetration of renewable energy resources needs new coordination and control approaches to meet the stochastic nature of the environment and dynamic loadings. We use Multi Agent System for advanced distributed, autonomous energy management of the micro...

Distributed simulation enables participants situated in different geographical locations to share a common virtual world, which is called a Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE). Among the different research topics concerned with DVEs, there is a current trend of linking Multi-Agent systems and DVEs together. With the properties of autonomy, social ability, reactivity and proactiveness, agents ...

This paper presents an agent-based negotiation framework to support the autonomous establishment and maintenance of Service Level Agreements for QoS aware web service compositions. It uses a two-layered architecture for the coordinated negotiation of QoS constraints, in order to ensure collective functionality, endto-end QoS and the stateful coordination of complex web service compositions. It ...