An itinerary scripting language provides a tool to accelerate the development of mobile agent applications. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss research challenges of itinerant mobile agents (ITAG) and describe the migration of ITAG to JADE, the popular FIPA-compliant agent platform. The migration process was based on two major steps: the migration of agent communications and agent tas...

The emergence of renewable energy sources with controllable loads gave the opportunity to consumers build their own Microgrids. However, intermittence such as wind and photovoltaic leads some challenges in terms balancing generation consumption. This paper aims present a novel multi-agent model based intelligent control scheme balance home/building alternative current (AC)-direct (DC) load dema...

RAP (Remote Assistant for Programmers) is a Web and multi-agent based system to support remote students and programmers during common projects or activities based on the Java programming language. RAP helps users to solve problems proposing information extracted from dedicated repositories and forwarding answers received from other users, recommended as experts. Its peculiar characteristic is t...

i Corresponding Author, M. R. Tousi is PhD student in Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). ii S. H. Hosseininan is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). iii M. B. Menhaj is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirk...

The presented agent-based framework (Acromovi an acronym in Spanish which stands for Cooperative Architecture for Intelligent Mobile Robots) was born from the idea that teamworking is an essential capability for a group of multiple mobile robots (Jung & Zelinsky, 1999; Mataric, 1998). In the last years, there is an increasing interest in the development of systems of multiple autonomous robots,...

An itinerary scripting language provides a tool to accelerate the development of mobile agent applications. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss research challenges of itinerant mobile agents (ITAG) and describe the migration of ITAG to JADE, the popular FIPA-compliant agent platform. The migration process was based on two major steps: the migration of agent communications and agent tas...

The adoption of the agent-based approach to the modelling and simulation of physical systems has proved to considerably increase the simulation realism and accuracy. Simulation systems of such a kind, however, require computational resources that might become unfeasible when the number of simulated agents scales up. A Distributed Simulation (DS) approach might improve the execution of such syst...

Abstract. The increasing interest in software agents and multi-agent systems has recently led to the development of new methodologies based on agent concepts. The Tropos framework offers an approach to guide the development of agent-oriented systems by using concepts based on requirements engineering. In this paper, we concentrate on the detailed design and implementation phases of the Tropos a...

Holonic Multi-Agent Systems (HMAS) provide a convenient and relevant way to analyze, model, and simulate complex systems in which a large number of entities are interacting at different levels of abstraction. Many models have been proposed for the implementation of these systems; however, most are not general enough to cover applications other than the ones for which they are applied. In this p...

In multiagent-based simulation systems the agent programming paradigm is adopted for simulation. This simulation approach offers the promise to facilitate the design and development of complex simulations, both regarding the distinct simulation actors and the simulation environment itself. We introduce the simulation middleware PlaSMA which extends the JADE agent framework with a simulation con...