SPADE 3: Supporting the New Generation of Multi-Agent Systems

Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems Generation

The article considers multi-agent systems, their use, their development process and operation. The study is aimed at modelling mechanisms for multi-agent systems agents’ generation, based on intelligent techniques. Agents’ generation method development will reduce development time and, just as importantly, will provide opportunities for the multi-agent systems expansion due to the generated com...

Supporting Internet-scale multi-agent systems

The Internet provides a large-scale environment for (intelligent) software agents. Agents are autonomous (mobile) processes, capable of communication with other agents, interaction with the world, and adaptation to changes in their environment. Current approaches to support agents are not geared for large-scale settings. The near future holds thousands of agents, hosts, messages, and migratory ...

On the use of multi-agent systems for the monitoring of industrial systems

The objective of the current paper is to present an intelligent system for complex process monitoring, based on artificial intelligence technologies. This system aims to realize with success all the complex process monitoring tasks that are: detection, diagnosis, identification and reconfiguration. For this purpose, the development of a multi-agent system that combines multiple intelligences su...

THOMAS: An agent platform for supporting normative multi-agent systems

Open Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are formed by autonomous and heterogeneous agents that may pursue different and even conflicting goals. Therefore, no assumption can be a priori made about their behaviours. Thus, it is needed to constrain the potential excesses of agent autonomous behaviour by means of regulation of agent interaction. Because of this, “social” notions, such as organizations, inst...

Supporting Cooperation in the SPADE-1 Environment