Autonomous agents in the real world must be capable of asynchronous goal generation. However, one consequence of this ability is that the agent may generate a substantial number of goals, but only a small number of these will be relevant at any one time. Therefore, there is a need for tractable mechanisms to manage a changing and potentially large number of goals. This paper presents both a fra...

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When autonomous agents attempt to coordinate action, it is often necessary that they reach some kind of consensus. Reaching consensus has traditionally been dealt with in the Distributed Artiicial Intelligence literature via negotiation. Another alternative is to have agents use a voting mechanism; each agent expresses its preferences, and a group choice mechanism is used to select the result. ...

 In this paper, we present DTP (Distributed Task Plan), a model to depict distributed tasks for executions by mobile agents. DTP is composed of autonomous primitives and can generate the autonomous workflow when a mobile agent executes it. DTP provides mobile agents with navigational and computational autonomies when transporting through the underlying computational network. A mobile agent pla...

The coordination of multiple autonomous vehicles into convoys or platoons is expected on our highways in the near future. However, before such platoons can be deployed, the new autonomous behaviours of the vehicles in these platoons must be certified. An appropriate representation for vehicle platooning is as a multiagent system in which each agent captures the “autonomous decisions” carried ou...

The different system architectures proposed in the literature for agent-based manufacturing systems can be classified into three categories: the Hierarchical approach, the Federation approach and the Autonomous Agent approach. According to our experience, the Autonomous Agent approach is well suited for developing distributed intelligent design systems where existing engineering tools are encap...