ontrol agents are effective mechanisms for autonomous control of complex distributed systems. This article describes the Open Autonomy Kernel (OAK), a control agent architecture that is based on a unique combination of model-based reasoning and software agents. The discussion includes the design and testing of OAK agents on Navy auxiliary systems, the need to consider the control network as a p...

Goals are central to the design and implementation of intelligent software agents. Much of the literature on goals and reasoning about goals only deals with a limited set of goal types, typically achievement goals, and sometimes maintenance goals; and much of the work on interactions between goals only deals with achievement goals. We aim at extending a previously proposed unifying framework fo...

Multi-agent systems have been developed for many years. However, little attention has been paid to agent dynamics the driving forces governing agents’ lives, work and contributions to a multi-agent system. Many questions related to the dynamic properties of a multi-agent system require study. This paper investigates this concern and proposes that roles and role-based architecture could be taken...

In this Chapter we summarize the progresses that have recently been made in the study of the emergence of communication in artificial embodied agents along different dimensions, including the understanding of the adaptive roles of communication, the expressive power and organization complexity of signalling systems, the stability, robustness, and evolvability of communication, and the knowledge...

Agents will adopt different strategies in the multiagent systems. However, the strategies of agents may produce conflicts. While agents coordinate with each other in the operations, they will negotiate about their strategies to reduce conflicts. This paper models the agent strategy negotiation mechanism in three kinds of agent coordination forms: order, cooperation and non-cooperation. In the o...

Multi-Agent Systems are suitable to provide a framework that allows to perform collaborative processes in distributed environments. Furthermore, argumentation is a natural way of reaching agreements between several parties. We propose an infrastructure to develop and execute argumentative agents in an open MAS. It offers the tools to develop agents with argumentation capabilities. It also offer...

In the absence of pre-established coordination structures, what can a self-governed entity – i.e. an entity that chooses on its own between its possible actions and cannot be controlled externally – do to evoke another self-governed entity’s cooperation? In this paper, the motivating conditional self-commitment is conceived to be the basic mechanism to solve coordination problems of this kind. ...

Software agents have been designed and implemented to function within limited context-aware capabilities. For an agent to function correctly and efficiently it should contain sufficient knowledge and reasoning resources enabling them to process large quantities of implicit information conveyed through an explicit description. Presented in this position paper is an introduction of the 6Ws agent-...

Given agents which have learned the transition functions for a discrete MDP, we examen how another agent, with no information about the state space, can efficiently determine how to query the other agents for knowledge of the MDP. This includes determining when to stop querying, as maximize the reward minus the penalty for each query (the reward in the MDP will increased due to more knowledge a...

Many interesting architectures for defining intelligent agents have been proposed in the last years. Logic-based architectures have proved effective for reproducing “intelligent” behavior while staying within a rigorous formal setting. In this paper, we present the DALI multi-agent architecture, a logic framework for defining intelligent agents and multi-