Andrea Westlund’s ‘Rethinking Relational Autonomy’ and Catriona Mackenzie and Jacqui Poltera’s ‘Narrative Integration, Fragmented Selves and Autonomy’ have many overlapping themes. In what follows, I draw out one of the overlapping themes: both articles distinguish between the necessary conditions for ‘identity’ or cross-temporal agency and the necessary conditions for autonomy. I suggest that ...

This paper explores modeling the adaptive mechanisms of autonomous agents. The focus is on reflexive interaction as a looping action that creates a “self.” Imitation and play are adaptive components of reflexive interactions that can provide gradual modifications of the agent’s self. Little by little, the autonomous agent reinforces what seems to work and phases out other options through an int...

Multi-agent systems is an evolving discipline that encompasses many different branches of research. The long-standing Agents at Aberdeen ( A 3 ) group undertakes research across several areas multi-agent systems, focusing in particular on aspects related to resilience, reliability, and coordination. In this article we introduce the highlight past successes those themes, building a picture stren...

Resilience in autonomous agent systems is about having the capacity to anticipate, respond to, adapt and recover from adverse dynamic conditions complex environments. It associated with intelligence possessed by agents preserve functionality or minimize impact on through a transformation, reconfiguration, expansion performed across system. Enhancing resilience of could pave way toward higher au...

This paper gives a preliminary account for a system for developing autonomous agents. The decision-mechanism of an agent is specified in terms of behaviors. Behaviors specify what actions and subbehaviors should be executed and under what conditions to fulfill some specific aims or purposes. Behaviors can be executed simultaneously if they are compatible, allowing the agents to perform several ...

Privacy has been a concern for humans long before the explosive growth of the Internet. The advances in information technologies have further increased these concerns. This is because the increasing power and sophistication of computer applications offers both tremendous opportunities for individuals, but also significant threats to personal privacy. Autonomous agents and Multi-agent Systems ar...

This paper is concerned with the consensus tracking problem of high order MIMO nonlinear multi-agent systems. The agents must follow a leader node in presence of unknown dynamics and uncertain external disturbances. The communication network topology of agents is assumed to be a fixed undirected graph. A distributed adaptive control method is proposed to solve the consensus problem utilizing re...

The Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) conference series is the main conference venue for research in this area. It was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three conferences: the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, the International Conference on Multiagent Systems, and the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. It aims to provide a highpro...

In this paper we discuss the types of functional knowledge about an environment an autonomous agent can use in order to act effectively. We show (1) how an agent can use knowledge of regularities to act efficiently, and (2) how a designer can simplify building useful sensors.