This paper focuses on agent-to-human presentation of the agent knowledge-level in a multi agent environment. The presentation skill is regarded as an agent's role the presenter role, in charge of uncovering what is occurring. In our approach the design of this role is driven by two main concerns: i) the inter-agent knowledge sharing, and ii) the human user monitoring of the knowledge being shar...

If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they need to follow a shared protocol. The protocol specifies the way in which negotiation should take place, including the flow of messages to be used. To date, most research in this area has focused on defining specific protocols for different kinds of interaction. Here we propose an alternative approach. We define a simple interaction...

The rapid and ever-increasing population and urban activities have imposed a massive demand on Urban Transportation Systems (UTS). These systems were not prepared for such events, so traffic congestion and defective metropolitan systems were a direct consequence of this deficiency. The explosion of the computing technology brought together expertise from different scientific and technical disci...

The organization metaphor is often used in the design and implementation of multiagent systems. However, few agent programming languages provide facilities to define them. Several frameworks are proposed to coordinate MAS with organizations, but they are not programmable with general purpose languages. In this paper we extend the JADE framework with primitives to program in Java organizations s...

Software agents represent a promising computing paradigm. They are an elegant technology to solve problems that can not be easily solved in other way. The Scientific Community has proved that the use of the software agents approach simplifies the solution of difierent type of traditional computing problems. A proof of this is that several important applications exist based on this technology. I...

In this work the multi-agent technology is exploited in order to develop a Multi-Agent Robotic System with the aim to simulate and control a production chain and lays the bases for the introduction of the agent technology into a manufacturing industrial process. In particular, a simplified washing-machine production system has been studied and agentified. More in detail, automatic production, n...

Sponsored by FAPERGS (ARD program), CAPES (PAPED program) and CNPq (PROTEM-CC program) 1 Ricardo Azambuja Silveira, Universidade Federal de Pelotas UFPEL e Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul -UFRGS [email protected] 2 Rosa Maria Vicari Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul -UFRGS [email protected] Abstract  Most traditional computer based learning systems lack to provide adaptive t...

This is an exploration to foretell a future in which traditional approaches for developing workflow management systems can be supplanted by new techniques and emerging technologies. This thesis recommends sets of methodologies for performing multiagent-based distributed and flexible workflow systems. Its objective is to deal with some of the present issues in the traditional workflow system fro...

The organization metaphor is often used in the design and implementation of multiagent systems. However, few agent programming languages provide facilities to define them. Several frameworks are proposed to coordinate MAS with organizations, but they are not programmable with general purpose languages. In this paper we extend the JADE framework with primitives to program in Java organizations s...