this paper deals with leader-following and leaderless consensus problems of high-order multi-input/multi-output (mimo) multi-agent systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics in the presence of uncertain external disturbances. the agents may have different dynamics and communicate together under a directed graph. a distributed adaptive method is designed for both cases. the structures of the contro...

Software agents are autonomous entities that can interact intelligently with other agents as well as their environment in order to carry out a specific task. We have proposed a role-based multi-agent system for e-learning. This multi-agent system is based on Agent-Group-Role (AGR) method. As a multi-agent system is distributed, ensuring correctness is an important issue. We have formally modele...

In multi-agent systems with separate agents, environment, and institution dimensions, the institutional state can be affected by facts originating in any of those constituent dimensions. Most current approaches model the dynamics of the institution focusing on the agents and the institution itself as the main sources of facts that produce changes in the institutional state. In this paper, we in...

Aphasia diagnosis is a challenging medical diagnostic task due to the linguistic uncertainty and vagueness, large number of measurements with imprecision, inconsistencies in the definition of Aphasic syndromes, natural diversity and subjectivity in test objects as well as in options of experts who diagnose the disease. In this paper we present a new self-organized multi agent system that diagno...

in this paper, a formal model for antivirus update agent system is presented based on mobile agent technology and predicate/transition petri nets. the mobile agent system contains two mobile agents called dca and una. it sends out agents to update antivirus on client computers in a network. each agent takes on a specified responsibility. first, dca roams through the network and check the last d...