Largely because of significant qualitative differences between the respective systems under study, the multi-agent and multi-robot research communities have each developed their own methods for perception, reasoning, and action in individual agents/robots. In particular, the multi-robot community has historically studied both implicit and explicit coordination techniques. Implicit coordination ...

Coordination mechanisms need the proper support if they are to function within large-scale, heterogeneous multi-agent systems. This paper presents a life cycle model for mobile agents in which a number of different states and transitions are defined. An agent’s state can be used to provide coordination mechanisms with useful status information, enabling these mechanisms to deal with realistic s...

The metaphors of autonomous agents and agent societies have the potential to make a signi cant impact on the processes of analysis design and development of complex software systems on the Internet In this chapter we concentrate predominantly on agent societies and show how work on coordination models and technologies provides a powerful framework for the engineering of Internet based multi age...

We propose in this paper the use of a hierarchy of coordinators to improve the convergence of a network of agents to a global norm. A norm or a convention is an unwritten law that a society of agents agree on. Social norms are used by humans all the time. Choosing on which side of the road to drive a car and the right-of-way at an intersection are wellknown examples. In a multi-agent setting, a...

The effectiveness of coordination within a multi-agent system depends largely on the abilities of the agents to cooperate and communicate. In environments where coordination is essential for goal accomplishment, agents must thus appropriately communicate for cooperative task achievement. We investigate two communication protocols (centralised and distributed) in learning and non-learning agent ...

Computer agent is considered as a technology that may support human beings with automatic functionalities in the social environment. This paper describes an approach to applying agents to diabetic health care. A good health care agent is considered to be able to keep a good balance between individual flexibility and team control. A systemic approach is proposed hereby as a complementation to th...

The coordination between agent service and Web service is the key factor for intelligent Web service management in the multi-agent based Web service framework. In view of the drawbacks of existing coordination approaches for agent service and Web service, this paper proposed a multiagent and workflow-based Web service management model. Through analyzing the interaction relations between agent s...

Exploration of an unknown environment is one of the major applications of Multi-Robot Systems. Many works have proposed multi-robot coordination algorithms to accomplish exploration missions based on multi-agent systems techniques. Some of these works particularly focus on multi-robot exploration under communication constraint. In this paper, we propose a solution based on flocking rules in ord...