This paper is concerned with infrastructural support for nomadic agents. Agent migration offers much potential however issues relating to the security and integrity of their temporary resting nodes has mitigated against the harvesting of their true potential. Within this paper we introduce the Agent Travel Metaphor (ATM) which offers a comprehensive metaphor fostering integrating of control and...

Evolution of automated systems, in particular evolution of automated agents based on agent deliberation, is the topic of this paper. Evolution is not a merely material process, it requires interaction within and between individuals, their environments and societies of agents. An architecture for an individual agent capable of (1) deliberation about the creation of new agents, and (2) (run-time)...

We are exploring the enhancement of models of agent behaviour with more “human-like” decision making strategies than are presently available. Our motivation is to build multi-agent based simulations of human societies that would exhibit more realistic simulation behaviours. This in turn will allow researchers to study more complex issues regarding individual and organisational performance than ...

Norms or conventions can be used as external correlating signals to promote coordination between rational agents and hence have merited in-depth study of the evolution and economics of norms both in the social sciences and in multiagent systems. While agent simulations can be used to gain a cursory idea of when and what norms can evolve, the estimations obtained by running simulations can be co...

In this paper a multi-agent architecture for intelligent Websites is presented and applied in insurance. The architecture has been designed and implemented using the compositional development method for multi-agent systems DESIRE. The agents within this architecture are based on a generic broker agent model. It is shown how it can be exploited to design an intelligent Website for insurance, dev...

-The paper presents a concept of a platform for cloud computing which is intended for development, control and usage of intelligent multi-agent Internet-services. The main purpose of the platform is to decrease the efforts needed for support of such services during their lifecycle.

Agent coordination is the ability to manage the interdependencies of activities between agents while agent cooperation is the process used for an agent to voluntarily enter a relationship with another to achieve a system derived goal. We describe and show the concepts of Coordinative Cooperation and Cooperative Coordination using examples. These concepts demonstrate the ability for intelligent ...

In this article we identify what influences the human negotiating process. These influencing concepts can be categorized into sociological concepts, environmental concepts and human inventions. We compared the concepts that were found in the human domain with the negotiating process in multi-agent systems. It was found that many environmental concepts and most human inventions are modelled by m...

The main objective of this paper is to describe the framework of an agent-based agenda manager. The technology herein presented is intended to be able to assist a user in his/hers every day’s life, supporting all aspects of activities to be carried out in different places and times. Differently from other tools with the same ability, our agenda agent goes beyond the simple task of managing acti...

This paper focuses on the foundational role of interactive epistemology in the problem of generating plans for rational agents in multiagent settings. Interactive epistemology deals with the logic of knowledge and belief when there is more than one agent. In multiagent settings, we are interested in not only the agent’s knowledge of the state of the world, but also its belief over the other age...