Agent orientation is believed as an appropriate and powerful paradigm to develop complex systems. In order to engineer complex self-adaptive multi-agent systems, we present dynamic binding mechanism and an agentoriented methodology called ODAM that exploits the flexibility and high-level abstraction of agent orientation based on organization metaphors. The metamodel and modeling language of ODA...

Many biological and cognitive systems do not operate deep into one or other regime of activity. Instead, they exploit critical surfaces poised at transitions in their parameter space. The pervasiveness of criticality in natural systems suggests that there may be general principles inducing this behaviour. However, there is a lack of conceptual models explaining how embodied agents propel themse...

This paper describes a generic multi-agent systems architecture for dynamic collaboration in an open environment. This architecture is described as composed of basic role-oriented processes communicating though primitive interaction protocols. The architecture is aimed to provide an enabling communications framework upon which multi-agent system (MAS) models can be organized and built. In parti...

In multi-agent system literature, the role concept is getting increasingly researched to provide an abstraction to scope beliefs, norms, goals of agents and to shape relationships of the agents in the organization. In this research, we propose a knowledgebase architecture to increase applicability of roles in MAS domain by drawing inspiration from the self concept in the role theory of sociolog...

It is emphasized in numerous prospective studies that the development of swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicules (UAV) should be important in the next years. However, the design of these new multi-agent systems involves to take up many challenges. In particular, reducing the number of operators requires to define new interfaces in order to interact with such autonomous multirobot systems. We presen...

Material Flow Control (MFC) mechanisms control the movement of jobs through a set stationery capacity resources on shop floor. Although objective MFC is item-centric, i.e. to flow individual jobs, most existing are resource-centric, focus managing resources. While this was justified by technical constraints real-time information feedback, advances in technology allow for new designs. In particu...

Public transport systems are generally organized in a static, a priori way. In such systems, the demand must be adapted to the offer. In this paper, we propose a model based on self-organization in order to dispatch a fleet of vehicles in a purely dynamic Transportation On Demand system (TOD). Our proposal consists in a decentralized approach and a multi-agent system (MAS) to model the environm...

We propose a global-to-local design methodology to compose heterogeneous swarms for self-organized task allocation. We consider embodied agents with only local knowledge and local communication driven by a simple reactive-control architecture (i.e., local level). We define finitely many agent controllers and focus on the macroscopic dynamics (i.e., global level) of behaviorally heterogeneous sw...

Next Generation Networks (NGN) aim to offer a wide variety of advanced telecommunications and multimedia services. Introduction of these services will be enabled mainly by two factors: increased bandwidth in the access network and convergence of different legacy networks towards a universal all-IP core network. The offer of large number of services in the NGN environment will arise the need for...