scholarly journals Self-Adaptive Swarm System (SASS)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin Yang

Distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) studies artificial intelligence entities working together to reason, plan, solve problems, organize behaviors and strategies, make collective decisions and learn. This Ph.D. research proposes a principled Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) cooperation framework -- Self-Adaptive Swarm System (SASS) -- to bridge the fourth level automation gap between perception, communication, planning, execution, decision-making, and learning.

Author(s):  
Cheng-Gang Bian ◽  
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Wen Cao ◽  
Gunnar Hartvigsen

ViSe2 l is an expert consulting system which employs software agents to manage distributed knowledge sources. These individual software agents solve users’ problems either by themselves or via cooperation. The efficiency of cooperation plays a serious role in Distributed Problem Solving (DPS) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). We have focused on the development of a twin-base approach for agents to model the capabilities of each other, and thus achieve efficient cooperation. The current version of the ViSe2 implementation is an experimental model of an agent-based expert system. Compared with other cooperation approaches in Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) area, the results received so far indicate that the ViSe2 agents serve their users in an efficient cooperation manner.


1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick R. Jennings

AbstractDistributed Artificial Intelligence systems, in which multiple agents interact to improve their individual performance and to enhance the systems' overall utility, are becoming an increasingly pervasive means of conceptualising a diverse range of applications. As the discipline matures, researchers are beginning to strive for the underlying theories and principles which guide the central processes of coordination and cooperation. Here agent communities are modelled using a distributed goal search formalism, and it is argued thatcommitments(pledges to undertake a specific course of action) andconventions(means of monitoring commitments in changing circumstances) are the foundation of coordination in multi-agent systems. An analysis of existing coordination models which use concepts akin to commitments and conventions is undertaken before a new unifying framework is presented. Finally, a number of prominent coordination techniques which do notexplicitlyinvolve commitments or conventions are reformulated in these terms to demonstrate their compliance with the central hypothesis of this paper.


Author(s):  
Mehdi Dastani ◽  
Paolo Torroni ◽  
Neil Yorke-Smith

AbstractThe concept of anormis found widely across fields including artificial intelligence, biology, computer security, cultural studies, economics, law, organizational behaviour and psychology. The concept is studied with different terminology and perspectives, including individual, social, legal and philosophical. If a norm is an expected behaviour in a social setting, then this article considers how it can be determined whether an individual is adhering to this expected behaviour. We call this processmonitoring, and again it is a concept known with different terminology in different fields. Monitoring of norms is foundational for processes of accountability, enforcement, regulation and sanctioning. Starting with a broad focus and narrowing to the multi-agent systems literature, this survey addresses four key questions: what is monitoring, what is monitored, who does the monitoring and how the monitoring is accomplished.


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