To facilitate the development of multi-agent systems and improve the reusability, robustness and feasibility of these systems, we proposed a role-based agent development framework (RADE). In this paper, we present more details on the design of agents and motivations within such framework. We introduce a practical approach to modeling agent’s motivation and specifying agent’s goals, where a role...

Our research provides a framework for the design of clean-slate network control and management plane using the abstraction of 4D architecture. We utilize and extend 4D’s concept of a logically centralized Decision plane that is responsible for managing network-wide resources, and present mechanisms for network operators to centrally plan, control, and manage their networks while ensuring networ...

background: presentation of course plan were advised but presentations of  lesson plans were useful too. these items can introduce the course and lessons of each session to students.  the objective of this study was the determination of the effects of educational planning on learning of occupational diseases. methods: this study was a semi experimental study which was conducted by using the cur...

We present a demonstration of a multi-agent prototype for distributed planning and coordination in dynamic non-deterministic multi-actor mixed-initiative environments. The system provides flexible planning, replanning, and task allocation. The key technologies utilized in the system are (i) I-X hierarchical planner with (ii) agent-based architecture and (iii) commitment-based plan representatio...

In multi-agent routing, agents must find the shortest-time path from source to destination while avoiding deadlocks and collisions with other agents. This paper describes an approach that reserves segments of road for particular time intervals, such that no two agents will occupy the same space at the same time. This paper takes away concerns about the complexity and robustness of the reservati...

Classical planning started with goals and produced plans. To do something similar in a reactive framework, it is necessary to treat the achievement or maintenance of a goal as specifying a default behavior, while at the same time being able to deploy tools to generate more complex plans. These tools rely on representing the relations between goals and plan patterns that achieve them. An importa...

We are interested in improving the quality of frequency assignment via a more accurate modeling of the traffic over the network. For this purpose, we propose here an original model for FAP, which takes into account both spatial and temporal variation of the traffic. The proposed model is assessed with a hybrid genetic algorithm and compared against a classical model. Experimental results on bot...

This articles reprises findings from hypergame work in Vane’s doctoral dissertation [Vane 2000] that are directly applicable to decision-theoretic (DT) and game-theoretic (GT), or simply, DTGT agents. Hypergame theory meets many of the methodological requirements for bounded rationality agent research. While this early hypergame work considered expected value and worst case scenarios (from adve...

the efficiency and robustness of reliability methods are two important factors in first order reliability method (form). the conjugate choice control (ccc) and directional chaos control method (dcc) were developed to improve the robustness and efficiency of form formula using the stability transformation method. in this paper, the ccc and dcc methods are applied for reliability analysis of a co...