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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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TL;DR: A two-dimensional self-organization mechanism was designed taking the behavioural and structural vectors into consideration, thus allowing truly evolutionary and reconfigurable systems to be achieved that can cope with emergent requirements.
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TL;DR: This review surveys the development of such distributed computational models for time-varying networks and focuses on a simple direct primal (sub)gradient method, but also provides an overview of other distributed methods for optimization in networks.
Abstract: Advances in wired and wireless technology have necessitated the development of theory, models, and tools to cope with the new challenges posed by large-scale control and optimization problems over ...
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TL;DR: This paper focuses on the concept of organisational rules and introduces a formalism, based on temporal logic, to specify them, and sketches some guidelines for a methodology for agent-oriented systems based on an expanded set of organisation abstractions.
Abstract: Multi-agent systems can very naturally be viewed as computational organisations. For this reason, we believe organisational abstractions offer a promising set of metaphors and models that can be exploited in the analysis and design of such systems. To this end, the concept of role models is increasingly being used to specify and design multi-agent systems. However, this is not the full picture. In this paper we introduce three additional organisational concepts - organisational rules , organisational structures, and organisational patterns - and discuss why we believe they are necessary for the complete specification of computational organisations. In particular, we focus on the concept of organisational rules and introduce a formalism, based on temporal logic, to specify them. This formalism is then used to drive the definition of the organisational structure and the identification of the organisational patterns. Finally, the paper sketches some guidelines for a methodology for agent-oriented systems based on our expanded set of organisational abstractions.
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TL;DR: ORA4MAS (Organisational Artifacts for Multi-Agent Systems), a proposed approach aiming at these issues, introduces organisational artifacts as first class entities to instrument the organisation for supporting agents activities within it.
Abstract: The social and organisational aspects of agency have led to a good amount of theoretical work in terms of formal models and theories However, the conception and engineering of proper organisational infrastructures embodying such models and theories are still an open issue The introduction of normative concerns with requirements of openness and adaptation stresses this issue The corresponding mechanisms for the current infrastructures appear to be not appropriate for managing distributed and open normative organisations There is still the need of proper abstractions and tools to facilitate application agents taking part in the monitoring of the organisation on one hand, and in the adaptation and definition of the organisation in which they are situated on the other hand In this paper we present and discuss ORA4MAS (Organisational Artifacts for Multi-Agent Systems), a proposed approach aiming at these issues Based on the Agents and Artifacts meta-model (A&A), it introduces organisational artifacts as first class entities to instrument the organisation for supporting agents activities within it
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a multi-agent system that is based on a well known cooperative game theory procedure, the kernel, where the agents are able to form kernel-stable coalitions and the cost allocation procedure is performed at every step of the kernel algorithm.
Abstract: With deregulation sweeping all over electrical systems around the world, transmission planning has undergone dramatic changes during this decade. Centralized cost allocation methods have become obsolete and new procedures are needed to deal with intelligent and self-sufficient players. In this paper, the authors study the allocation of transmission costs in a decentralized manner. For this purpose, they have developed a multi-agent system that is based on a well known cooperative game theory procedure, the kernel. Using their approach, the agents are able to form kernel-stable coalitions and the cost allocation procedure is performed at every step of the kernel algorithm. A six bus example and an IEEE 24 bus case illustrate their model.
190 citations