Manufacturing is one of the main fields of application of software agent technology. In this respect, several current research projects focus on workflow management, with the aim of an integration and coordination among plant and business activities. In section I, the state of the art is presented, relevant to software agents and to the technologies currently adopted in the exploitation of agen...

Intelligent and autonomous agents is a subarea of symbolic artificial intelligence where these decide, either reactively or proactively, upon course action by reasoning about the information that available world (including environment, agent itself, other agents). It encompasses multitude techniques, such as negotiation protocols, simulation, multi-agent argumentation, planning, many others. In...

Today, most visualization systems available on the market lack of flexibility regarding their visualization process with respect to either their interaction possibilities or their rendering quality. In order to satisfy individual user demands and to adapt to changing system loads and different hardware configurations, multi agent technology is combined with the component-based implementation of...

Application of ICT in health (eHealth) has become an integral part of modern healthcare systems. Elec‌tronic health information management has proven useful in improving quality of health care, reducing costs and facilitating health research. However, the increasing complexity of healthcare and the growing demand for high quality healthcare delivery has created a need for eHealth systems with t...

application of agent based model in simulation of stakeholder’s behavior is slightly a new method for modeling of complicated systems that include autonomous agents interacting with each other. recent numerical achievements have made the applications of agent based models possible in various fields. these applications range from modeling of human progress and destruction of past civilizations t...

This paper describes the Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology. MaSE is a general purpose, methodology for developing heterogeneous multiagent systems. MaSE uses a number of graphically based models to describe system goals, behaviors, agent types, and agent communication interfaces. MaSE also provides a way to specify architecture-independent detailed definition of the internal age...

Agent-based simulation is used to understand complex systems and to experiment several scenarios. In classical simulation frameworks, a pitfall is the fact that the action phase, based on local agent context analysis, is repeated in each agent at each time cycle during the simulation execution. This analysis inside the agents reduces agent flexibility and limits agent behavior reuse in various ...

In this paper we propose an architecture for the development of Intelligent Virtual Environments for Training, which is based on a collection of cooperative software agents. The first level of the architecture is an extension of the classical Intelligent Tutoring System architecture that adds to the expert, student, tutoring and communication modules a new module which is called World Module. S...

Human task performance varies depending on the task, environment, and states of the human over time. To ensure high effectiveness and efficiency in the execution of complex tasks, adaptive automated assistance of the human may be required. In this paper, a generic design for a multi-agent system architecture is presented and a personal assistant agent is presented that makes use of the proposed...