Many AI professionals consider RoboCup small league competition as an ideal platform for testing distributed artificial intelligence techniques. Among these techniques are multi-agent systems (MAS), which advocate collective intelligence by focusing on autonomy of the agents and their intercommunication. Multi-agent systems have been used in several disciplines such as Industry [16], Internet [...

This paper studies the problem of fault detection and isolation (FDI) for multi-agent systems (MAS) via complex Laplacian subject to actuator faults. A planar formation of point agents in the plane using simple and linear interaction rules related to complex Laplacian is achieved. The communication network is a directed, and yet connected graph with a fixed topology. The loss of symmetry in the...

Open Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are formed by autonomous and heterogeneous agents that may pursue different and even conflicting goals. Therefore, no assumption can be a priori made about their behaviours. Thus, it is needed to constrain the potential excesses of agent autonomous behaviour by means of regulation of agent interaction. Because of this, “social” notions, such as organizations, inst...

Diagnosing unwanted behaviour in Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) is crucial to ascertain agents’ correct operation. However, generation of MAS models is both error-prone and time intense, as it exponentially increases with the number of agents and their interactions. In this paper, we propose a light-weight, automatic debugging-based technique, coined ESFL-MAS, which shortens the diagnostic process,...

There have been tremendous advances in the last decade in the theory and implementation of massive multi-agent systems. However, one major obstacle to the wider deployment of multi-agent systems (MASs) is their capability of tolerating failures. MASs that are deployed across a network can quickly “go down” due to external factors such as power failures, network outages, malicious attacks, and o...

In this paper, a new method for the agentification of production systems within the development of Multi-Agent-Systems (MAS) is presented.

Multi-agents systems (MAS) are developed using a variety of architectures nowadays. These range from peer-to-peer to blackboard-like communication, from insecure distributed systems to complex security schemes, from those MAS using database to those using knowledge based information systems. Although a system’s architecture often has to be designed according to its specific application domain, ...

In this paper, a new method for the agentification of production systems within the development of Multi-Agent-Systems (MAS) is presented.

The field of Multi-agent systems (MAS) has been an active area for many years due to the importance that agents have to many disciplines of research in computer science. MAS are open and dynamic systems where a number of autonomous software components, called agents, communicate and cooperate in order to achieve their goals. In such systems, trust plays an important role. There must be a way fo...

The detailed design of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is intended to introduce additional detail for each architectural component of the system according to agent-oriented design patterns. In this paper, we propose a process to perform the detailed design of MAS using UML-based diagrams and social patterns. This process is described in detail using the SPEM notation and is illustrated with the e-New...