Computer agent is considered as a technology that may support human beings with automatic functionalities in the social environment. This paper describes an approach to applying agents to diabetic health care. A good health care agent is considered to be able to keep a good balance between individual flexibility and team control. A systemic approach is proposed hereby as a complementation to th...

The coordination between agent service and Web service is the key factor for intelligent Web service management in the multi-agent based Web service framework. In view of the drawbacks of existing coordination approaches for agent service and Web service, this paper proposed a multiagent and workflow-based Web service management model. Through analyzing the interaction relations between agent s...

Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and services. The aim of this paper is to show how auction mechanisms on the Internet can be easily implemented by using programmable tuple spaces. Tuple spaces are shared repositories of information that follow the Linda mode...

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In recent years, multi-agent systems have become one of the most promising approaches for organizing software. However, the demand for capabilities of autonomous decision making poses some requirements on agent architectures. It is necessary, in fact, that the behavior of an agent be suitably constrained to make it socially compatible with the community of agents. In this paper, we propose a mo...

On the one hand, recent studies on the history of human societies suggest that the role of the environment has to be taken explicitly into account in order to understand evolution of individuals and groups in any non-trivial setting. On the other hand, the notion of context is well-known and relevant to several research areas such as natural language, philosophy, logic, and artificial intellige...

Coordenação é um dos principais problemas em sistemas multiagentes, além de também desempenhar um papel essencial na gestão de desastres. A alocação de tarefas é uma fase importante do problema de coordenação, já que a decomposição de um objetivo em tarefas é a forma mais natural para se organizar o trabalho entre agentes. Nesse artigo, é proposta uma abordagem híbrida de alocação de tarefas pa...

To achieve an optimal outcome in many situations, agents need to choose distinct actions from one another. This is the case notably in many resource allocation problems, where a single resource can only be used by one agent at a time. How shall a designer of a multi-agent system program its identical agents to behave each in a different way? From a game theoretic perspective, such situations le...

Improvement in supply chain performance is one of the major issues in the current world. Lack of coordination in the supply chain is the main drawback of supply chain that many researchers have proposed different methodologies to overcome it. VMI (Vendor-managed inventory) is one of these methodologies that implementing it has some obstacles. This paper proposes new model that is agent-managed ...

This paper presents Limone, a new coordination model that facilitates rapid application development over ad hoc networks consisting of logically mobile agents and physically mobile hosts. Limone assumes an agent-centric perspective on coordination by allowing each agent to define its own acquaintance policy and by limiting all agent-initiated interactions to agents that satisfy the policy. Agen...