Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems
Science of Computer Programming
Multiagent systems
Multiagent systems and societies of agents
Multiagent systems
Implicit versus explicit characterization of complex entities and events
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on formal ontology and conceptual modeling
An introduction to general systems thinking (silver anniversary ed.)
An introduction to general systems thinking (silver anniversary ed.)
A Process Algebraic Semantics for Statecharts via State Refinement
PROCOMET '94 Proceedings of the IFIP TC2/WG2.1/WG2.2/WG2.3 Working Conference on Programming Concepts, Methods and Calculi
Reasoning About Knowledge
A multi agent methodology for holonic manufacturing systems
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
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We address tactical behaviors of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and focus on their coordination within hierarchical units. This research thus addresses multiagent systems but more particularly structures where autonomous parts coordinate to form wholes that in turn are parts in more inclusive wholes. To capture these notions, we introduce the concept of a holarchy (a hierarchy of holons, which are both parts and wholes) and use an enhancement of the Statechart notation called Parts/whole Statecharts. We relate aspects of this notation to the technical notion of common knowledge, which is a necessary condition for coordination, and we sketch techniques for building holarchic models using Parts/whole Statecharts. An implementation of one such model in Matlab’s Stateflow tool is sketched.