The objective of this paper is to examine the crucial area of coordination in multi-agent systems. It does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the coordination literature ; rather, it highlights the necessity for coordination in agent systems and overviews briefly various coordination techniques. It critiques these techniques and presents some conclusions and challenges which we ...

This paper describes a research project in progress of developing a Multi-Agent System-based educational game QuizMASter for e-learning that would help students learn their course material through friendly competition. We explore the use of perceptive pedagogical agents that would be able to determine the learner’s attitudes; to assess learners’ emotional states through examining learner’s stan...

The global objective of open multiagent systems might be in conflict with individual preferences of rational agents participating in such systems. Addressing this problem, we propose a mechanism able to attach incentives to agent actions such that the global utility of the system is improved. Such incentives are dynamically adjusted to each agent’s preferences by using institutional agents call...

This paper presents a two-layer multi-agent architecture designed to support communities of practice in organizations which are concerned with knowledge sharing. The main goal of this proposal is to facilitate knowledge exchange in organizations whose employees are organized into communities. In order to test the architecture, a prototype with which to recommend documents in communities of prac...

This paper builds on an existing notion of group responsibility and proposes two ways to define the degree of group responsibility: structural and functional degrees of responsibility. These notions measure potential responsibilities of agent groups for avoiding a state of affairs. According to these notions, a degree of responsibility for a state of affairs can be assigned to a group of agents...

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In this study, we examined the influence of achievement goals and scaffolding on self-regulated learning (SRL) and achievement within MetaTutor, a multi-agent intelligent tutoring system. Eighty-three (N = 83) undergraduate students were randomly assigned to either a control or prompt and feedback condition and engaged in a 1-h learning session with MetaTutor to learn about the human circulator...