Agents and Complex Systems.

Agents and Complex Systems

Traditional objects can be thought of as passive, because they wait for a message before performing an operation. Then, once invoked, they execute their method and go back to “sleep” until the next message. A trend in many systems now is to design objects that react to events in their environment, as well as be proactive. In UML 2.0, these are known as active objects; in the agent community, th...

Complex fuzzy linear systems

Computational Agents in Complex Decision Support Systems

The article introduces a general approach to decision making in complex systems and architecture for agent-based decision support systems (DSS). The approach contributes to decentralization and local decision making within a standard work flow. The architecture embodies the logics of the decision developing work flow and is virtually organized as a layered structure, where each level is oriente...

- 1 - Interface Agents in Complex Systems

It is argued in this paper that interface agent concepts and technology previously applied primarily to generic tasks, such as electronic mail management, are applicable to complex domainbased systems. Interface agents in these specialized domains require substantial amounts of domain-specific and task-specific knowledge in order to be useful to the system end-users. This makes their developmen...

Towards an Approach for Engineering Complex Systems: Agents and Agility

The way in which we use and conceive modern software systems is changing. Humans/users are becoming more and more immersed in today complex systems operation, systems interact in a dynamic fashion with the users and with changing and dynamic environments. New design paradigms are necessary. In this paper we propose a first insight to engineering complex physical systems by employing agility and...