Reasoning about knowledge
MAAMAW '92 Selected papers from the 4th European Workshop on on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, Artificial Social Systems
Commitments Among Autonomous Agents in Information-Rich Environments
Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: Multi-Agent Rationality
A Logical Framework for Multi-Agent Systems and Joint Attitudes
Proceedings of the First Australian Workshop on DAI: Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Architecture and Modelling
Software Agents for Electronic Business: Opportunities and Challenges
Proceedings of the 9th ECCAI-ACAI/EASSS 2001, AEMAS 2001, HoloMAS 2001 on Multi-Agent-Systems and Applications II-Selected Revised Papers
Specifying recursive agents with GDTs
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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With the ever growing usage of the world wide IT networks, agent technologies and multiagent systems (MAS) are attracting more and more attention. Multiagent systems are designed to be open systems, wheras agent technologies aim at the design of agents that perform well in environments that are not necessarily well-structured and benevolent. Emergent system behaviour is one of the most interesting phenomena one can investigate in MAS. However, there is more to MAS design than the interaction between a number of agents. For an effective system behaviour we need structure and organisation. This paper presents basic concepts of a theory for holonic multiagent systems with the aim to define the building blocks of a theory that can explain organisation and dynamic reorganisation in MAS. In doing so it tries to bridge the well-known micro-macro gap in MAS theories. The basic concepts are illustrated with three application scenarios: flexible manufacturing, order dispatching in haulage companies, and train coupling and sharing.