The dynamics of collective sorting robot-like ants and ant-like robots
Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
Modeling and analysis of stochastic systems
Modeling and analysis of stochastic systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Communications of the ACM
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
Anthill: A Framework for the Development of Agent-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
A new approach to scalable Linda-systems based on swarms
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Wasp-like Agents for Distributed Factory Coordination
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept
Autonomous Robots
Programming stigmergic coordination with the TOTA middleware
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Performance of digital pheromones for swarming vehicle control
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Decentralized control of E'GV transportation systems
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Design patterns from biology for distributed computing
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Infrastructures for the environment of multiagent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Environment as a first class abstraction in multiagent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A self-organising solution to the collective sort problem in distributed tuple spaces
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Simulating Emergent Properties of Coordination in Maude: the Collective Sort Case
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Design Patterns for Self-organising Systems
CEEMAS '07 Proceedings of the 5th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V
Environment in agent-oriented software engineering methodologies
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
Agens Faber: Toward a Theory of Artefacts for MAS
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
ADELFE: a methodology for adaptive multi-agent systems engineering
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Designing self-organising MAS environments: the collective sort case
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Design patterns for decentralised coordination in self-organising emergent systems
ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
Enhancing self-organising emergent systems design with simulation
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Programming MAS with artifacts
ProMAS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Development of self-organising emergent applications with simulation-based numerical analysis
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
PRISM: a tool for automatic verification of probabilistic systems
TACAS'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Methodologies for Self-Organising Systems: A SPEM Approach
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
On model design for simulation of collective intelligence
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A Goal-Oriented Approach for Modelling Self-organising MAS
ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Context-aware agents in cooperative design environment
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Agent-based organizational structures for ambient intelligence scenarios
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
A functional taxonomy for artifacts
HAIS'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems - Volume Part II
Information and Software Technology
Self-organization and multiagent systems: I. Models of multiagent self-organization
Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International
Self-organization and multiagent systems: II. Applications and the development technology
Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International
A method fragments approach to methodologies for engineering self-organizing systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Simulation in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: The SODA case study
Science of Computer Programming
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
We propose a methodological approach for tackling the earlydesign stages of self-organising Multiagent Systems (MASs). Weadopt an architectural pattern based on the Agents and Artefacts(A&A) metamodel: self-organisation mechanisms are added to anexisting environment of artefacts by embedding them intoenvironmental agents. We rely on a three-stage design approach withmodelling, simulation and tuning, so as to identify a suitabledesign of environmental agents and their interaction withartefacts. The main objective is to design a MAS environmentproviding services that self-organise in response to theunpredictable dynamics of the agents exploiting them. As a casestudy, we analyse the problem called collective sorting, a servicefor decentralised sorting of items in MAS environments that wasinspired by social insects' behaviour: the proposed solutionfeatures environmental agents and tuple spaces, whose designchoices and evaluation have been driven by formal simulations.