The complexity of distributed and decentralized systems demands new tools for designing and programming processes. An idea of autonomous agents that arises as an extension of the object and process concepts may be applied to distributed and decentralized systems development ([9],[11]). In the paper the authors have undertaken an attempt to describe formally the architecture of multiagent system...

This paper studies the problem of fault detection and isolation (FDI) for multi-agent systems (MAS) via complex Laplacian subject to actuator faults. A planar formation of point agents in the plane using simple and linear interaction rules related to complex Laplacian is achieved. The communication network is a directed, and yet connected graph with a fixed topology. The loss of symmetry in the...

Coordination is an important aspect of multi-agent systems (MAS). Although being decisive for many MAS applications, it is rarely modelled and implemented explicitly. Instead, coordination is realized implicitly and hard wired among other agent functionalities. Therefore, this work aims at providing an approach towards explicit coordination in MAS in which developers can focus more on what and ...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are now being considered a promising architectural approach for designing collaborative information systems. In such a perspective, the concept of delegation has often been considered as a key concept for modeling cooperative behavior in MAS. However, despite considerable work on delegation mechanisms in MAS, few research efforts have aimed at truly defining a delegati...

This paper outlines a practical approach to the formal development of multi-agent systems (MAS). Rigorous design practices are needed if MAS are to be used for critical applications. Event-B is a formal method that can be used in the development of reactive systems. Decomposition is used as part of the approach to reduce the complexity of modelling MAS. The experience of modelling MAS Interacti...

Game engines are gaining increasing popularity in various computational research areas, and in particular in the context of multi-agent systems (MAS)—for instance, to render augmented reality environments, improve immersive simulation infrastructures, and so on. Existing examples of successful integration between game engines and MAS still focus on specific technology-level goals, rather than o...

There is a growing demand for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in the software industry. The autonomous agent interaction in a dynamic software environment can potentially lead to runtime behavioral failures including deadlock. In order to bring MAS to the main stream of commercial software development, the behavior of MAS must be tested and monitored against the risk of unwanted emergent behaviors in...

Reward shaping has been proposed as a means to address the credit assignment problem in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Two popular shaping methods are Potential-Based Reward Shaping and difference rewards, and both have been shown to improve learning speed and the quality of joint policies learned by agents in single-objective MAS. In this work we discuss the theoretical implications of applying th...

The seamless retrieval of information distributed across networks has been one of the key goals of many systems. Early solutions involved the use of single static agents which would retrieve the unfiltered data and then process it. However, this was deemed costly and inefficient in terms of the bandwidth since complete files need to be downloaded when only a single value is often all that is re...

This paper presents the VisualAgent a software development environment that assists the specification, design and implementation stages of the agent system development lifecycle. The VisualAgent environment provides support for modeling multi-agent systems by using the MAS-ML modeling language and for implementing such systems by using the Agent Society Framework.