This paper aim to present a multi-agent model for a simulation system, whose goal is to help one specific participant of multi-criteria group decision mak-

Multi-agent simulation provides a way to explore results from social studies and provide hints on how these results scale. One particular class of studies that is interesting to explore are economicrelated studies. We developed a multi-agent system that simulates an investment game and incorporates the results from economic-related social studies into the design of the agents. We analyzed how s...

Artifacts have been recently proposed as first-class abstractions to model and engineer general-purpose computational environments for multiagent systems. In this paper, we consider the design and development of an infrastructure called CArtAgO, directly supporting the artifact notion for the engineering of multiagent applications. We first propose an abstract model of the infrastructure, and t...

When developping multi-agent systems (MAS) or models in the context of agent-based simulation (ABS), the tuning of the model constitutes a crucial step of the design process. Indeed, agent-based models are generally characterized by lots of parameters, which together determine the global dynamics of the system. Moreover, small changes made to a single parameter sometimes lead to a radical modif...

The importance of collaboration in the supply chain has led scholars to suggest diverse approaches for problems in the collaboration process. Questions still remain about which method is best when coordinating and sharing information in the presence of various supply and demand uncertainties. Hence, this paper aims to propose an integrated framework based on multi-agent collaboration and case-b...

An argumentation system can undergo changes (addition or removal of arguments/interactions), particularly in multiagent systems. In this paper, we are interested in dynamics of abstract bipolar argumentation systems, i.e. argumentation systems using two kinds of interaction: attacks and supports. We propose change characterizations that use and extend previous results defined in the case of Dun...

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In this paper we describe MASQ (Multi-Agent Systems based on Quadrants), a model that defines four perspectives over an agent-based interaction according to two axes: internal/external and individual/collective. With MASQ, we mainly show how to integrate the essential elements that intervene in the description of the interaction process such as agents, environments, organizations and institutio...

We describe how, by modelling plot generation as a Continual Multiagent Planning process, dynamic stories can be generated in which characters not only inteleave perception, action and interaction, but in which also beliefs and motivations may change repeatedly, thus driving the plot forward.