This paper presents the development of the Agent.Enterprise system, which consists of five multi-agent systems from the manufacturing logistics domain. Consequently, the development process has to take the distributed structure of the involved projects into account. The maturity of the technical foundations for multi-agent systems and the support by development tools, infrastructure services an...

agent oriented software engineering (aose) is an emerging field in computer science  and  proposes some systematic ideas for multi agent systems analysis, implementation and maintenance. despite the various methodologies introduced in the agent-oriented software engineering, the main challenges are defects in different aspects of methodologies. according to the defects resulted from weaknesses ...

HelpDesk is a collective of agents which interact to reduce the workload of expert system users by retaining critical information provided by the expert to naive users. Techniques found in the eld of natural language processing are utilized to perform information extraction from free form text, and information retrieval of retained knowledge.

We present the eleventh edition of the Multi-Agent Programming Contest, an annual, community-serving competition that attracts groups from all over the world. Our contest enables head-to-head comparison of multi-agent systems and supports educational efforts in their design and implementation.

ACORN (Agent-based Community Oriented Routing Network) is a distributed multi-agent architecture for the search, distribution and management of information in networks. ACORN utilizes the concept of ‘information as agent’ together with an application of Stanley Milgram’s Small World Problem (the idea of Six Degrees of Separation) in order to route individual items of information around networks...

In this paper we investigate the model-checking problem of pushdown multi-agent systems for ATL specifications. To this aim, we introduce pushdown game structures over which ATL formulas are interpreted. We show an algorithm that solves the addressed model-checking problem in 3ExpTime. We also provide a 2ExpSpace lower bound by showing a reduction from the word acceptance problem for determinis...

The large amount of pages in Websites is a problem for users who waste time looking for the information they really want. Knowledge about users’ previous visits may provide patterns that allow the customization of the Website. This concept is known as Adaptive Website: a Website that adapts itself for the purpose of improving the user's experience. Some Web Mining algorithms have been proposed ...