A computational market model for distributed configuration design. In Proceedings Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp. 401–407.

The German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers, to present and discuss latest advances in research work, as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents and multiagent systems. The conference aims to promote theory and application and covers the whole range of agentand multi-agent technol...

Distributed Artificial Intelligence is concerned with problem solving in which groups solve tasks. In this paper we describe strategies of cooperation that groups require to solve shared tasks effectively. We discuss such strategies in the context of a specific group problem solving application: collision avoidance in air traffic control. Experimental findings with four distinct air-traffic con...

Whereas the main objective of Artificial Intelligence is to develop systems that emulate the intellectual and interaction abilities of a human being the Distributed Artificial Intelligence pursues the same objective but focusing on human being societies (O’Hare et al., 2006). A paradigm in current use for the development of Distributed Artificial Intelligence is based on the notion of multi-age...

Since the early eighties, Distributed Artificial Intelligence emerged as a promising area for modelling and implementing distributed computational processes and entities displaying some kind of intelligence. This paper presents our perspective of the potential application of Multi-Agent Systems together with some ideas on the relevant research that makes those applications possible. A more exte...

Following the ideas of the Remote Procedure Call model, we have developed a logic programming counterpart, naturally called Prolog Remote Predicate Call (Prolog RPC) [1]. The Prolog RPC protocol facilitates the integration of Prolog code in multi-language applications as well as the development of distributed intelligent applications. One use of the protocol’s most important uses could be the d...

Agent technology is a Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) approach to implement autonomous entities driven by beliefs, goals, capabilities, plans, and agency properties: adaptation, interaction, learning, etc. Software agents are the focus of considerable research by the artificial intelligence community, but there is still much to be done in the field of software engineering in order to ...

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) mechanisms allows the development of intelligent machines/systems capable to solve very complex engineering problems. Multi-agent systems is one paradigm, derived from the distributed artificial intelligence and artificial life fields, that allows an alternative way to design distributed control systems based on autonomous and cooperative agents, ...

This paper reports on the development of algorithms for factory decisionmaking and scheduling systems. The particular decision-making and schedule coordination problem studied relates to the synchronisation of a series of events in the context of a production changeover in electric arc steel-making. The paper explores two distributed approaches to this co-ordination problem. The first is a simp...

Software Agents are the new revolution in software usability. Agents are described with anthropomorphic features such as intelligence, autonomy, and such. The school of researchers from the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed AI (DAI), and other more pragmatic researchers are engaged in defining these “software entities” and creating this new field of study and development along...