Many people consider that security is one of the biggest problems for practical use of mobile agents that move around the network and do their tasks. In this paper, we assert that this issue can be effectively managed by using IPEditor, the development ...

Autonomy and inter- operability are two characteristics of software agents that are advocating agent technology as an ideal candidate to support next generation of software systems. This paper presents a Java development toolkit supporting the ...

Multi-Agent Systems are a promising way of dealing with large complex problems. However, it is not yet clear just how much complexity or pre-existing structure individual agents must have to allow them to work together effectively. In this paper, we ...

In this paper, we study a simple means for coordinating teams of simple agents. In particular, we study ant robots and how they can cover terrain once or repeatedly by leaving markings in the terrain, similar to what ants do. These markings can be ...

We analyze a general model of multi-agent communication in which all agents learn to communicate simultaneously to a message board. We show that the communicating multi-agent system is equivalent to a Mealy finite state machine whose states are ...

Over the last few years, electronic auctions have become an increasingly important aspect of e- commerce, both in the business to business and business to consumer domains. As a result of this, it is often possible to find many auctions selling similar ...

We introduce the study of {\it live} social insect colonies as a relevant and exciting domain for the development and application of multi-agent systems modeling tools. Social insects provide a rich source of {\it traceable} social behavior for testing ...

Agents in a multi- agent system must coordinate to achieve their goals, in general. Establishing an organizational structure that specifies how agents in the system should work together helps multi- agent systems achieve effective coordination. Among ...

We propose a formal semantics for the protocol diagrams (interaction patterns) of AUML (Agent Unified Modelling Language). We connect this proposal with a general framework for defining the semantics of ACLs (Agent Communication Languages). We then show ...

The promise of intelligent agents acting on behalf of users' personalized knowledge sharing needs may be hampered by the insistence that these agents begin with a predefined, common ontology instead of personalized, diverse ontologies. Only until ...

In this paper, we present MadKit/SEdit, an agent infrastructure combined with a generic design tool for multi-agent systems. This toolkit is based on a organizational metaphor to integrate highly heterogeneous agent systems.

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In this paper we will discuss different types of control over synthetic characters in interactive stories. We will argue that, to attain a deeper and more engaging control, in certain conditions, users should be able to inspect, disclose, and modify the ...

Recently Web sites have been providing users with services in accordance with their preference data. In addition to such configuration services, notification services, which process jobs in response to events which occurred at a server in the users' ...

We have developed a method for improving cooperation in complex systems that uses multi- agent (MA) intelligent field terminals (IFTs). The MA function evaluates the control conditions of the overall system and the conditions of the other IFTs. To ...

We present a framework that enables a belief-desire-intention (\acro{bdi}) agent to dynamically choose its intention reconsideration policy in order to perform optimally in accordance with the current state of the environment. Our framework integrates ...

Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or justifications for their proposals for resolving conflicts, is an effective ...

A framework for modeling driver behavior within driving simulators is described in this paper. This framework serves as a basis for building human- like driving behavior models for autonomous vehicles operating within the virtual environment of a ...

Emotions play a critical role in creating engaging and believable characters to populate virtual worlds. Our goal is to create general computational models to support characters that act in virtual environments, make decisions, but whose behavior also ...

User profiles are the central component of most personalized Web information agents. They consist of a set of models representing the various topics of interest to the user. Often the agent learns the user's preferences from examples of documents deemed ...

The First Trading Agent Competition (TAC) was held from June 22 to July 8, 2000. TAC was designed to create a benchmark problem in the complex domain of e-marketplaces and to motivate researchers to apply unique approaches to a common task. This paper ...