Special Issue on Multi-Agent Systems

Special issue on argumentation in multi-agent systems

Different agents within a multiagent system (MAS) potentially have access to different information and different capabilities (including reasoning capabilities), different beliefs about the world, different preferences, constraints, and desires, and different goals. A key aspect of the scientific and engineering study of multiagent systems, therefore, has been the development of methods and pro...

Special issue on multi-agent and holonic systems in manufacturing

The manufacturing sector has been facing major challenges as it undergoes revolutionary changes fuelled by new and sophisticated demands from customers, global competition, distribution of manufacturing and marketing activities, and technological advances. In order to address these challenges, manufacturing enterprises need to change the way they do business and adopt innovative organizational ...

Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems

It is now more than ten years since researchers in the US Knowledge Sharing Effort envisaged a future where complex systems could be built by combining knowledge and services from multiple knowledge bases and the first agent communication language, KQML, was proposed (Neches et al., 1991). This model of communication, based on speech acts, a declarative message content representation language a...

Special issue on logics for intelligent agents and multi-agent systems

This issue reports on the latest developments in formal approaches to intelligent agents and multi-agent systems based on modal logics and their applications on various aspects of agency. Intelligent agents, be it on their own or as part of a multi-agent system, operate in a dynamic and complex environment and hence they need to be able to cope with uncertainty and reason with often incomplete ...

Special issue on agents and multi-agent systems: From objects to agents