This aim of this paper is to present the Multi-Agent Systems. Later is presented ALLEGRO: A Teaching/Learning Multi-Agent Environment. ALLEGRO is an intelligent environment that includes artificial intelligence mechanisms (Instructional Planning IP, Cased-Based Reasoning CBR, Multi-Agent Systems MAS, Intelligent Tutoring Systems ITS, and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning CSCL).

Multi-agent systems (MAS) represent an effective approach for designing and constructing collaborative applications, designed as set of autonomous entities, named agents, which interact and coordinate. Some example of references on multi-agent systems are: [1], [2] [3]. Although multi-agent systems provide an effective approach for decentralized applications, they still need to better address t...

A great number of processes for multi-agent systems have been presented in last years to support the different approaches to agentoriented design; every process is specific for a particular class of problems and it deals with a specific MAS meta-model. These differences produce inconsistences and overlaps: a MAS meta-model may define a term not referred by another, or the same term can be used ...

This paper presents a conceptual model of an agent (called Collaborator Agent) intended to design collaborative software architectures based on multi-agent systems. The authors’ model combines astutely two research areas: Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). The particularity of their approach is the division of the collaborative process into three spaces ac...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) differ from non-agent based systems because agents are intended to be autonomous units of intelligent functionality. As a consequence, agent-based software engineering methods must complement standard design activities and representations with models of the agent society. Some methods coming from artificial intelligence community address social knowledge and relationsh...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has evolved towards the specification of global constraints that heterogeneous and autonomous agents are supposed to follow when concerning open systems. A subset of these constraints is known as the MAS organisation. This article describes a set of computational tools that supports the development and the programming of such systems. At the system level, it is provide...

With the recent rapid growth of interest in Multi-Agent Systems(MAS), has come an associated difficulty modelling basic terms, concepts. In this paper, the underlying homogeneousness between human being (society) and software agent (MAS, Multi-Agent System) is opened out, based on which a new definition and architecture for agent is proposed. An agent is made of certain soft genes and roles. Su...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by today’s corporate IT applications such as e-business systems, Web services, or enterprise knowledge bases. Since the fundamental concepts of multi-agent systems are social and intentional rather than object, functional, or implementation-oriented...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by today’s corporate IT applications such as e-business systems, Web services or enterprise knowledge bases. Since the fundamental concepts of multi-agent systems are social and intentional rather than object, functional, or implementation-oriented,...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by today’s corporate IT applications such as eBusiness systems, web services or enterprise knowledge bases. Since the fundamental concepts of multi-agent systems are social and intentional rather than object, functional, or implementation-oriented, ...