Agent technology is critical in providing solutions to grid computing, including resource selection. Traditionally, agent deliberation offers a deductive process whose deliberation cost is very high and also difficult to measure. We consider the use of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) for grid selection. Within this domain timing is an important index. Once the client applies for some service, the MAS...

Coordination is an important aspect of multi-agent systems (MAS). Although being decisive for many MAS applications, it is rarely modelled and implemented explicitly. Instead, coordination is realized implicitly and hard wired among other agent functionalities. Therefore, this work aims at providing an approach towards explicit coordination in MAS in which developers can focus more on what and ...

While Multi Agent Systems (MAS) attracted a great deal of attention in the field of software engineering, with its promises of capturing complex systems, they re­ main far away from commercial popularity mainly due to the lack of a MAS method­ ology that is accessible for commercial developers. In this paper we present a prac­ tical method for developing MAS that we believe will enable not only...

Modeling interactions between agents and the Multi-Agent System (MAS) behavior based on role based collaboration among the participating agents are the key factors to design of effective MAS dynamics. In this paper, a High level Multi Agent Petri Net called HMAP has been proposed which is capable of describing, analyzing and modeling dynamics of such MAS which are characterized as asynchronous,...

Agent oriented applications and agent-based systems are increasingly demanding security guarantees that concern confidentiality, integrity, availability, accounting and non-repudiation in order to be deployed in business applications such as e-commerce, e-finance that include both B2B and B2C transactions. This paper considers the main challenges concerning security that need to be overcome for...

Current business trends, policy markets, production requirements, etc., have created the need for integrating pre-existing Multi Agent Systems (MAS). In the agent-specialized literature, we have not found agent architectures neither methodologies that allow us to carry out recursive and dynamic analysis, design, and implementation of MASs. Several difficult challenges for automated systems can ...

In the aim of providing sophisticated applications and getting benefits from the advantageous properties of agents, designing agent-based and multi-agent systems has become an important issue that received further consideration from many application domains. Towards the same goal, this work gathered three different research fields; image segmentation, fuzzy clustering and multi-agent systems (M...

Complex multi-agent systems (MAS) that consist of large numbers of loosely coupled, heterogeneous agents tend to be difficult to manage. The management of MAS, which i s similar to that of other decentralized and highly distributed systems, covers a range of activities including fault, configuration, performance and security management. In this paper we focus on the specific issues of faultmana...

Coordination infrastructures have played a central role in the engineering of multi-agent systems (MAS). Although MAS research has produced a number of notable coordination infrastructures of varying features, these have been mainly conceived to host software agents and to facilitate multi-agent programming. Thus, human agents have been mostly kept out of the picture, hence hindering the use of...

In recent years, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies are proposed to develop complex distributed systems based upon the agent paradigm. The implementation for such systems has usually the form of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). MAS’ testing is a challenging task because these systems are often programmed to be autonomous and deliberative, and they operate in an open world, which...