Although a wide variety of multi-agent systems have been developed to address various processing-specific issues, they share a number of attributes concerning visualization and control. A set of minimum functionality is proposed that may be considered when designing visualizations representing multiagent system properties and control options. Each of these guidelines helps to define a standard ...

One of the key requirements in collaborating distributed applications is that their sub-systems remain synchronized during their joint operation. With increasing deployment of software ”teams”, composed of distributed applications in complex, dynamic settings, there is an increasing need to also be able respond to failures that occur in their synchronization and coordinated operation, in partic...

Real-world applications are usually characterized by heterogeneous distributed entities that in-teract following complex coordination protocols and that dynamically and autonomously mod-ify their strategies during this interaction; these systems are extremely difficult to model andimplement, and traditional software engineering tools and techniques are often insufficient toc...

This paper reports first trials to include the User aspect into MultiAgent Systems, which is a basic need if Multi-Agent Systems want to contribute to environments where the User is tightly coupled with decentralised systems, such as pervasive computing. The paper first outlines how Multi-Agent Systems have developed from Agent Centred Multi-Agent Systems to Organisation Centred Multi-Agent Sys...

This paper deals with leader-following and leaderless consensus problems of high-order multi-input/multi-output (MIMO) multi-agent systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics in the presence of uncertain external disturbances. The agents may have different dynamics and communicate together under a directed graph. A distributed adaptive method is designed for both cases. The structures of the contro...