During the last decade, both evolutionary computation and multiagent systems have been used for solving decision and optimization problems. This paper proposes a new evolutionary agent system by incorporating evolutionary process into agent concepts for solving mathematical programming models. Each of the agents represents a candidate solution of the problem, and able to sense and act on the so...

Modelling a society of cooperative and autonomous mobile robots can be viewed as a multi-agent issue, i.e., the task to determine a multi-agent architecture for a robot society according to this two requirements. In this paper, we motivate a multi-layered approach to fulfill cooperation and autonomy. We propose an agent model together with an interaction model based on this approach. Features o...

Multi-agent schema-based reactive robotic systems are complemented with the addition of a new behavior controlled by a teleoperator. This enables the whole society to be aaected as a group rather than forcing the operator to control each agent individually. The operator is viewed by the reactive control system as another behavior exerting his/her innuence on the society as a whole. Simulation r...

In this poster summary, we argue that mental concern-processing mechanisms are amenable to a society-of-mind approach to mind design. We illustrate our case with an information-level analysis of the emotion process, relating the different classes of emotional state to the different layers of our motivated agent framework. We describe how a society-of-mind design-based implementation strategy al...

The paper describes the design and development of an efficient visualization tool called security console for monitoring security related events in a large agent society (CougaarTM). This administrative tool is primarily used to collect and process alert messages generated by various sensors across the distributed agent society. This tool exploits the agents’ hierarchical structural for aggrega...

To realize large-scale socially embedded ambient intelligence systems, this paper proposes a design methodology towards society-centered design. Participatory technologies and multiagent systems are essential in the new system design perspective. Multiagent systems make it possible to test and predict the behavior of socially embedded systems. We have already developed the scenario description ...

This paper presents an attempt of using intelligent agents for testing and repairing a distributed system, whose elements may or may not have embedded BIST (Built-In Self-Test) and BISR (Built-In Self-Repair) facilities. It also discusses a few possible solutions for remotely managing the agent society, including the devices, agents, tests and repair processes. The agents are software modules t...