Co-ordination in software agent systems

Co-ordination in Multi-Agent Systems

Operational Design Co-ordination: An Agent-Based Approach

Operational design co-ordination has been identified as the basis for an approach to engineering design management that is more comprehensive than those that currently exist. As such, an integrated and holistic approach to operational design co-ordination has been developed that enables design to be managed in a coherent, appropriate and timely manner. Furthermore, the approach has been impleme...

Cross Organisational Workflow Co-ordinated by Software Agents

We assert that a layer of software agents, that co-ordinate the distribution of work via negotiation, is the proper software abstraction for the development of cross-organisational workflow management systems. We support our assertion by describing: the use of software agents to provision distributed workflows; the role of agents to facilitate workflow interoperability; agent-based techniques f...

Properties and Models of Software Agents and Prefabrication for Agent Application Systems

This paper introduces properties and object-oriented models of software agents. Based on literature on agent technology, properties of agents are explained systematically. Agent systems are understood as a software architecture type. To simplify and refine this complex topic, special models decribing properties of re-usable agents are discussed. This leads to the prefabrication for mobility, co...

Practical Development of Hybrid Intelligent Agent Systems with SoSAA

The development of intelligent Multi Agent Systems (MAS) is a non-trivial task. While much past research has focused on highlevel activities such as co-ordination and negotiation, the development of tools and strategies to address the lower-level concerns of such systems is a more recent focus. SoSAA (Socially Situated Agent Architecture) is a strategy for the integration of high-level MASs on ...