Coordination is essential in distributed computing, which involves a group of loosely coupled agents cooperating in order to solve problems in a decentralised fashion. One of the popular approaches of coordination is the generative tuple space based communication, where agents interact via a shared data space. This paper discusses the implementation of Contract Net protocol (CNP) in a number of...

This paper presents the basic concepts behind AgenTalk, a language used for describing coordination protocols in multiagent systems. Many coordination protocols such as the contract net protocol have been proposed, and many application specific coordination protocols are expected to be required as soon as building of more software agents begins. Thus, a language for defining and implementing su...

Current technology trends in robotics are leading us to the development of multi-robot systems, that are capable of performing complex and multi-level tasks. Despite more than two decades of theoretical and experimental work on multi-robot systems, important aspects of coordination among robots have been untreated. To refer this issue, we focus on the problem of allocating tasks to a set of rob...

A new trend in home automation is to integrate audio en video applications. However in current domotics systems, these are usually conFigured statically. We implemented a home automation tool that dynamically (re)schedules bandwidth for different types of multimedia streams with different constraints toward latency and quality. The dynamic scheduling problem was implemented using distributed ag...

advocates of horse riding claimed they had been discriminated against because they were no longer allowed in some areas they had previously used. Many non-equestrian residents were vocal in their disapproval of horse riding being permitted anywhere in the park, largely because of perceived threats to conservation values. Resolution of the debate was hampered by a perceived lack of scientific ev...

This paper presents an approach that provides the necessary assistance to those who are in charge of engineering communities of Web services. Current practices indicate that Web services providing the same functionality are gathered into one community, independently of their origins and the way they carry out this functionality. The provided assistance manifests itself with the concepts to use,...

In this paper, we present and discuss a distributed scheme for multi-robot cooperation. It integrates mission planning and task refinement as well as cooperative mechanisms adapted from the Contract Net Protocol framework. We discuss its role and how it can be integrated as a component of a complete robot control system. We also discuss how it handles distributed task allocation and achievement...