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Multi-agent system

About: Multi-agent system is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 27978 publications have been published within this topic receiving 465191 citations. The topic is also known as: multi-agent systems & multiagent system.


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11 Sep 2000
TL;DR: Little-JIL is an executable, high-level process programming language with a formal (yet graphical) syntax and rigorously defined operational semantics that provides a rich set of control structures while relying on separate systems for support in areas such as resource, artifact and agenda management.
Abstract: Little-JIL, a new language for programming the coordination of agents, is an executable, high-level process programming language with a formal (yet graphical) syntax and rigorously defined operational semantics. Little-JIL is based on two main hypotheses. The first is that the specification of coordination control structures is separable from other process programming language issues. Little-JIL provides a rich set of control structures while relying on separate systems for support in areas such as resource, artifact and agenda management. The second hypothesis is that processes can be executed by agents who know how to perform their tasks but can benefit from coordination support. Accordingly, each step in Little-JIl is assigned to an execution agent (human or automated). These agents are responsible for initiating steps and performing the work associated with them. This approach has so far proven effective in allowing us to clearly and concisely express the agent coordination aspects of a wide variety of software, workflow and other processes.

98 citations

01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: The term "multiagent systems" has come to encompass an increasingly broad variety of issues, approaches, and phenomena, to the point that it has become progressively used.
Abstract: The term multi-agent system is currently in vogue, and has been generally applied to any system that is, or can be considered to be, composed of multiple interacting agents. In the various multi-agent (or, more properly, multiagent) systems that have been proposed developed, a wide variety of "agents" have been considered, ranging from fully autonomous intelligent agents (such as people) down to relatively simple entities (such as rules or clusters of rules). Thus, as it has become progressively used, "multiagent systems" has come to encompass an increasingly broad variety of issues, approaches, and phenomena, to the point

98 citations

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TL;DR: The current state of the art of organization-oriented multiagent system methods, placing emphasis on their organizational features, are discussed, and several guidelines for implementing agent organizations by means of Organization Theory are proposed.

98 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, an agent-based micro model for grocery shopping is presented, based on an individual population and store data gathered in northern Sweden, with the aim to simulate spatial choice in shopping behavior on a regional level.

98 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
29 Jul 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extended the consensus-based bundle algorithm (CBBA) to address complex missions for a team of heterogeneous agents in a dynamic environment, where the authors proposed appropriate handling of time windows of validity for tasks, fuel costs of the vehicles, and heterogeneity in the agent capabilities.
Abstract: This paper extends the consensus-based bundle algorithm (CBBA), a distributed task allocation framework previously developed by the authors, to address complex missions for a team of heterogeneous agents in a dynamic environment. The extended algorithm proposes appropriate handling of time windows of validity for tasks, fuel costs of the vehicles, and heterogeneity in the agent capabilities, while preserving the robust convergence properties of the original algorithm. An architecture to facilitate real-time task replanning in a dynamic environment is also presented, along with methods to handle varying communication constraints and dynamic network topologies. Simulation results and experimental flight tests in an indoor test environment verify the proposed task planning methodology for complex missions.

98 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023536
20221,212
2021849
20201,098
20191,079
20181,105