Cooperative multi-agent systems (MAS) are ones in which several agents attempt, through
their interaction, to jointly solve tasks or to maximize utility. Due to the interactions among the …

Manufacturing has faced significant changes during the last years, namely the move from a
local economy towards a global and competitive economy, with markets demanding for …

The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
mainstream computer science. In this article, we present a survey of what we perceive to be …

In the last decades significant changes in the manufacturing environment have been
noticed: moving from a local economy towards a global economy, with markets asking for …

Renewed motives for space exploration have inspired NASA to work toward the goal of
establishing a virtual presence in space, through heterogeneous fleets of robotic explorers …

A multiagent approach to designing the transportation domain is presented. The modeling
autonomous cooperating ship** companies system (Mars) is described, which models …

Advances in Computer Science often arise from new ideas and concepts, that prove to be
advantageous for the design of complex software systems. The con ception of multi agent …

Decreasing innovation cycles, changing market situations as well as growing specialisation
in individual market segments demand new ways of economic thinking, increasingly forcing …

The objective of this paper is twofold. In its first part, we survey the state of the art in research
on agent architectures. The architecture of an agent describes its modules and capabilities …

This article presents a new approach to the design of the architecture of a computer-
integrated manufacturing (CIM) system. It starts with presenting the basic ideas of novel …