In contexts of competitive multi-agent coordination in a highly dynamic environment, one of the crucial problems is the resolution of deadlocks situations. In the field of multi-agent simulation, such situations can appear owing to the local perception of each agent. This article is dedicated to the proposition of a model actions selection by anticipation. We detail this model within the framew...

Logic-based languages have already proved to be effective to build individual agents and to enable inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. Also, logic tuple centres have shown that logic-based languages can be effectively exploited to rule inter-agent communication so as to build social behaviours. In this paper, we formally define the notion of logic tuple centre as well as the opera...

The main aim of my PhD thesis is to develop a theory for arguing in groups and apply it to allow agents in open MultiAgent societies to reach agreements by using argumentation. The thesis proposes a computational argumentation framework for agent societies. Also, a protocol that allows agents in multi-agent societies to engage in argumentation processes is also being developed. ACM Categories: ...

A critical challenge to creating effective open multi-agent systems is allowing them to operate effectively in the face of potential failures. In this paper we present an experimental evaluation of a set of domain-independent services designed to handle the failure modes ("exceptions") that can occur in such environments, applied to the wellknown "Contract Net" multi-agent system coordination p...

The main aim of my PhD thesis is to develop a theory for arguing in groups and apply it to allow agents in open MultiAgent societies to reach agreements by using argumentation. The thesis proposes a computational argumentation framework for agent societies. Also, a protocol that allows agents in multi-agent societies to engage in argumentation processes is also being developed. ACM Categories: ...

Multi-agent systems provide an increasingly popular solution in problem domains that require management of uncertainty and high degree of adaptability. Robustness is a key design criteria in building multi-agent systems. We present a novel approach for the design of robust multi-agent systems. Our approach constructs a model of the design of a multi-agent system in Alloy, a declarative language...

Coordination is an important aspect to realize Self-organizing Systems usually implemented as part of the functional properties of the system. This paper promotes a separation of concerns via a declarative approach to realize decentralized coordination in Self-organizing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). In previous work the concept of Coordination Spaces was developed which provides explicit support ...

Internet-based multi-agent systems call for new metaphors, abstractions, methodologies and enabling technologies specifically tailored to agent-oriented engineering. While coordination models define the framework to manage the space of agent interaction, ruling social behaviours and accomplishing social tasks, their impact on system design and development calls for an effective coordination tec...

This paper is concerned with the conceptual basis of multi-agent based formalization of the process of electric power distribution system design. A choice of a multi-agent software architecture is made, the interface protocols and approaches to the coordination of intellectual agents are described. Based on the ontological approach, a multi-aspect information model of electric power distributio...

The intelligent control of the traffic signal is critical to optimization transportation systems. To achieve global optimal efficiency in large-scale road networks, recent works have focused on coordination among intersections, which shown promising results. However, existing studies paid more attention observations sharing intersections (both explicit and implicit) did not care about consequen...