Multi-agents systems (MAS) are developed using a variety of architectures nowadays. These range from peer-to-peer to blackboard-like communication, from insecure distributed systems to complex security schemes, from those MAS using database to those using knowledge based information systems. Although a system’s architecture often has to be designed according to its specific application domain, ...

Cloud computing can offer a very powerful, reliable, predictable and scalable computing infrastructure for the execution of MAS (multi-agent systems) implementing complex agent-based applications such when modelling, simulation and real-time running of complex systems must be provided. Multi-agent systems appears as an adequate approach to current challenges in many areas. Between important qua...

This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase the visibility and impact of multi-agent systems as a universal technology and solution. Second, it presents my current thinking on the socio-technical content of the needed infrastructure in four different corners of t...

In the past few years, the Multi-agent systems (MAS) area has presented an accelerated growth. New techniques and tools are constantly being proposed and several methodologies have been published to support the development of MAS. Most of these methodologies concentrate on the system analysis phase, giving almost no support for MAS implementation. Since agents can be seen as sort of specialized...

This paper discusses about multi-agent systems and its characteristics. This paper also provides a review of different applications and components involving multi-agent system. A multi-agent system (MAS) is a loosely coupled network of software agents that interact to solve problems that are beyond the individual capacities or knowledge of each problem solver. They simplify problem-solving by d...

Several recent design techniques address the problem of distributed controller synthesis for multi-agent systems (MAS). However, since these methods use a decomposition based approach to reduce the complexity of the MAS, they cannot provide a guarantee of performance with the designed controller, and furthermore lead to conservative designs due to the Lyapunov shaping paradigm. This paper propo...

In this paper, we pursue a modelling approach to address security requirements for multi-agent systems (MAS). This will allow developers to account for both the system and agent-specific security requirements of a MAS during the requirements phase and throughout the whole Software Development Lifecycle of the system. We focus on autonomy, mobility and cooperation of individual agents and how th...

A new approach to model multi-agent systems with hierarchical colored Petri nets is introduced. Every agent has its colored Petri net system, when agents are composed into a MAS, we get hierarchical colored Petri net system of the multi-agent system, properties of the hierarchical colored Petri net system, such as reachability, deadlock detection and avoidance, fairness can be used to analyze d...

Based on common functionality existing among different multi-agent systems (MAS) such as reactivity, deliberation and communication, several tools have been built to develop MAS. Despite these efforts, most of them are targeted to specific application domains or specific types of agents, limiting thus their applicability. This paper describes an approach to develop MAS that aims at providing fl...

Artifact systems are a novel paradigm for implementing service oriented computing. Business artifacts include both data and process descriptions at interface level thereby providing more sophisticated and powerful service inter-operation capabilities. In this paper we put forward a technique for the practical verification of business artifacts in the context of multi-agent systems. We extend GS...