Multi-agent systems is an evolving discipline that encompasses many different branches of research. The long-standing Agents at Aberdeen ( A 3 ) group undertakes research across several areas multi-agent systems, focusing in particular on aspects related to resilience, reliability, and coordination. In this article we introduce the highlight past successes those themes, building a picture stren...

MAPS (Multi-Agent Planning System) is a system for multi-agent coordination that has been developed in the robot soccer domain. It uses potential Ž elds to model the environment and provide directives for the robots. The key feature that enables successful coordination is the use of a shared world model. This paper describes MAPS and demonstrates it as a viable coordination system for use in mu...

The exponential convergence problem is studied for coordination learning control of multi-agent formation under the switching network topology. A necessary and sufficient condition on exponential convergence is presented for coordination learning control algorithms of multi-agent formation tasks without any reference as prior knowledge. Moreover, it is shown that the developed results are effec...

Intelligent agents are a powerful technology with many significant applications and are starting to assume more responsible in more critical tasks. One of the most important uses of agent technology is for problem–solving coordination. Coordination has been defined as managing the interdependencies between activities, ordering and locating actions in time in an attempt to maximize a possibly ch...

The objective of this paper is to examine the crucial area of coordination in multi-agent systems. It does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the coordination literature ; rather, it highlights the necessity for coordination in agent systems and overviews briefly various coordination techniques. It critiques these techniques and presents some conclusions and challenges which we ...

Information exchange in multi-agent systems raises a multiplicity of problems, which the Internet further emphasises – heterogeneity and dynamics of information among the main ones. Knowledge scientists and engineers have proposed several solutions (mediators, information brokers, ontologies) which, roughly speaking, mainly focus on information representation, retrieval and interpretation. Mean...

Real-time coordination in multi-agent systems have been studied from different perspectives of computation, communication and other aspects of coordination. Here in this position paper, we present an integrated view of coordination covering agent reasoning, message passing, resource management and negotiation. We argue for an integrated and comprehensive approach of “real-time coordination” in ...

A tuple centre is a Linda-like tuple space whose behaviour can be programmed by means of transactional reactions to the standard communication events. This paper de nes the notion of tuple centre, and shows the impact of its adoption as a coordination medium for a distributed multi-agent system on both the system design and the overall system e ciency.

The purpose of this paper is to study how a multi-agent-based coordination mechanism can resolve con¯icts among functional units in an enterprise. In the era of information technology, characterized by web technology, intelligent agents demonstrate the best interests of a functional unit when engaged in the highly delicate coordination process of an enterprise. Thus, behavioral problems that oc...