In this paper we present a test bed for multiagent control systems in road traffic management. As the complexity of traffic control on a network grows it becomes more difficult to coordinate the actions of the large number of heterogeneous traffic management instruments that are available in the network. One way of handling this complexity is to divide the coordination problem into smaller cohe...

The research of adaptativity and reactivity in the control of adaptative manufacturing cells implies distribution of intelligence in decision making. It also entails the difficulty to master and optimize real-time decision-making. The aim of this paper is to study the interest of multi-agent system and eco-resolution, in the control of adaptative manufacturing cells. After an introduction of th...

Four options for assigning a meaning to Islamic Logic are surveyed including a new proposal for an option named Real Islamic Logic (RIL). That approach to Islamic Logic should serve modern Islamic objectives in a way comparable to the functionality of Islamic Finance. The prospective role of RIL is analyzed from several perspectives: (i) parallel distributed systems design, (ii) reception by a ...

This article describes a representation-based framework of distributed cognition. This framework considers distributed cognition as a cognitive system whose structures and processes are distributed between internal and external representations, across a group of individuals, and across space and time. The major issue for distributed research, under this framework, are the distribution, transfor...

Distributed cognition is a new development trend of cognitivism, and is also a new research field of knowledge management. The study discusses that tacit knowledge explicating activity is a distributed cognitive activity, whose success depends on interaction of each of these factors in distributed cognitive system and none of the factor could be neglected. Further, the study exploits distribute...

Recent research in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) has shown that different organizational forms to which agents may organize themselves have beneficial and varying effects on the performance of multiagent systems (MAS) regarding scalability, agent drop-out safety and flexibility. This talk presents a concept to enlarge a spectrum of five organizational forms that has been specified w...

Past applications of artificial intelligence techniques to shop floor control tasks arc reviewed. In the area of resource allocation in distributed manufacturing D’stems, the issue of resource reconfiguration is identified as a neglected problem. A game theoretic planning model suitable for use in a distributed shop floor control environment is introduced. Autonomous machine controllers consult...

Interest has increased recently in synthesizing solutions to CIS problems by using results from the database and distributed AI communities. Such synthesis is not without its diicul-ties; results do not always transfer seamlessly to a new, complex domain. In this paper we highlight the diiculties encountered in our attempts to use event detection and subscription mechanisms (proposed in current...

The concepts of ‘knowledge’ and ‘rationality’ are of central importance to fields of science that are interested in human behavior and learning, such as artificial intelligence, economics, and psychology. The similarity between artificial intelligence and economics both are concerned with intelligent thought, rational behavior, and the use and acquisition of knowledge has led to the use of econ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) started out with an ambition to reproduce the human mind, but, as the sheer scale of that ambition became apparent, quickly retreated into either studying specialized intelligent behaviours, or proposing overarching architectural concepts for interfacing specialized intelligent behaviour components, conceived of as agents in a kind of organization. This agent-based ...