A comprehensive approach to the design and implementation of multi-robots cooperative systems is described. It focuses on a design process that uses the Unified Modeling Language and on a detailed ontology description with the goal of sharing the knowledge on environments that robots can acquire through the use of their vision sub-system. We base the implementation of our robotics vision system...

Characterized as cooperation and high efficiency, cooperative multi-robot systems (CMRS) have emerged as usual manufacturing equipments in current industries (Cao et al., 1997). Differing from generic control systems, the cooperation needs to be considered in the realization of CMRS (Cao et al., 1997). So the system modeling, analysis and refinement always meet with difficulties. As one of the ...

Maintaining logical consistency in a knowledge base that receives asynchronous events from collaborative agents poses a challenge, due to multiple agent perspectives of the knowledge base. Facades and filters further complicate this problem by distorting the definition of consistent knowledge. Therefore, maintaining logical consistency of the knowledge base requires an infrastructure for handli...

The paper is about the modeling of natural disasters, taking in account both the natural elements than the human behaviors and working on mixed scenarios of forests, build-up area, rivers and roads. We propose a three steps methodology that spans from the earth observation to categorization towards environment forecast modeling and action planning. As case study, we focused on fire spreading. G...

The discipline of Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) has emerged during the last decade. In this domain, methodologies and modeling techniques have been suggested in order to support the development process of agent-based systems. Both the scientific and industrial communities have recognized the potential advantages of agent-based systems. Nevertheless, the number of deployed commercia...

With the increasing importance of complex software systems in the software industry, the need for using agent technologies to develop large-scale commercial and industrial software systems is growing rapidly. Such systems are complex and there is a pressing need for system modeling techniques to support reliable, maintainable and extensible design. G-Nets are a type of Petri net defined to supp...

We intend to create an intelligent agent that is able to detect the objects and relations in its environment, and based on the received information is able to build up an internal knowledge base on the basis of which linguistic expressions can be formulated. The present investigations focus on modeling the agent’s ability to assign semantic representations to its observations. For this purpose ...