Cognitive Maps for Indirect Coordination of Intelligent Agents

Coordination and Sociability for Intelligent Virtual Agents

This paper presents a multi-agent framework designed to simulate synthetic humans that properly balance task oriented and social behaviors. The work presented in this paper focuses on the social library integrated in BDI agents to provide socially acceptable decisions. We propose the use of ontologies to define the social relations within an artificial society and the use of a market based mech...

Coordination of Multiple Intelligent Software Agents

We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and adaptive collections of information agents that coordinate to retrieve, lter and fuse information relevant to the user, task and situation, as well as anticipate user's information needs. In our system of agents, information gathering is seamlessly integrated with decision support. The task for which particular information is reques...

The Design of Intelligent Agents for Buyer-Supplier-Supplier Coordination

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Intelligent Decision Support

Cognitive maps have been utilised in decision analysis in the past. More recently fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) have been proposed as an alternative to knowledge-based expert systems for representing and analysing complex systems. Increasing interest in adaptive systems, in the form of artificial neural networks, has also focussed attention on FCMs. This paper presents an overview of the evolutio...

Communication and coordination for intelligent fault diagnosis agents

In this paper, we describe an application scenario where distributed artificial intelligence is needed for performance monitoring and fault diagnosis in a telecommunications network. We then describe the prototype agent-based system that we have developed for this task. Based on this application scenario, we highlight the key issues that have affected the design of our system, in terms of the c...