Simulation of multi-agent systems (MAS) can be an effective technique for generating randomized compositions out of primitive picture elements. This report presents a complete implementation of a MAS for creating rule-based hierarchical arrangements of 3D objects in a plane and identifies some associated technical challenges, such as attaining good performance and usability.

The key role of environment as a first-class abstraction in the engineering of MAS (multi-agent systems) is today generally acknowledged in the MAS community. However, the support for the notion of environment in today AOSE (agent-oriented software engineering) methodologies is still either absent, weak, or incomplete at best. In this paper we first review, classify and compare existing AOSE me...

Formal modelling of multi-agent systems (MAS) present many interesting challenges. In this extended abstract we present a framework of how formal modelling can lead towards identi cation and veri cation of emergent properties of spatial biology-inspired MAS. We discuss the problem in question as well as initial work done on the formal modelling side and the visual animation of these formal models.

Naming and capability-mediated services, such as Agent Name Services and middle agents, perform a fundamental task in the Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) infrastructures, because they allow agents to find each other and interoperate. Because of their importance in the MAS, the scalability of naming and capability-mediation services is crucial to guarantee the overall scalability of the MAS. Surprisin...

In complex, open, and heterogeneous environments, agents must be able to reorganize towards the most appropriate organizations to adapt unpredictable environment changes within Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Types of reorganization can be seen from two different levels. The individual agents level (micro-level) in which an agent changes its behaviors and interactions with other agents to adapt its ...

Diagnosing unwanted behaviour in Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) is crucial to ascertain agents’ correct operation. However, generation of MAS models is both error-prone and time intense, as it exponentially increases with the number of agents and their interactions. In this paper, we propose a light-weight, automatic debugging-based technique, coined ESFL-MAS, which shortens the diagnostic process,...

This presents a study in which a high level abstract architecture was used to design open multi-agent systems and virtual organizations that offer services with temporal constraints implemented by Real-Time Agents. The results will demonstrate how the proposed architecture, with features that make it suitable for development of open MAS (Multi-Agent Systems), allows us to add specific functiona...

A cooperative multi-robot system (CMRS) modeling method called fuzzy timed agent based Petri nets (FTAPN) is proposed in this paper, which has been extended from fuzzy timed object-oriented Petri net (FTOPN). The proposed FTAPN can be used to model and illustrate both the structural and dynamic aspects of CMRS, which is a typical multi-agent system (MAS). At the same time, supervised learning i...

In 2001, Olivier Barreteau proposed to jointly use multi-agent systems and role-playing games for purposes of research, training and negotiation support in the field of renewable resource management. This joint use was later labeled the "MAS/RPG methodology" and this approach is one of the foundation stones of the ComMod movement. In this article, we present an alternative method called "agent-...

This paper illustrates advances over existing implementation work performed on DALI, which is a logic prolog-based framework for defining agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) developed at University of L’Aquila since 1999, and publicly available. In previous work, DALI features were already extended in view of cognitive robotic applications and Complex Event Processing. Here, we show how to def...