Routing in telecommunications networks with ant-like agents
IATA '98 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Intelligent agents for telecommunication applications
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Protocol Based Communication for Situated Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Views: customizable abstractions for contextaware applications in MANETs
SELMAS '05 Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Environments for multiagent systems state-of-the-art and research challenges
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
A Formal Model for Situated Multi-Agent Systems
Fundamenta Informaticae - Multiagent Systems (FAMAS'03)
Coordination middleware for decentralized applications in dynamic networks
DSM '05 Proceedings of the 2nd international doctoral symposium on Middleware
Environments in multiagent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Gradient field-based task assignment in an AGV transportation system
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
An Architectural Strategy for Self-Adapting Systems
SEAMS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
Design choices for agent-based control of AGVs in the dough making process
Decision Support Systems
View composition in multiagent architectures
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
On the modularity assessment of aspect-oriented multiagent architectures: a quantitative study
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Architectural design of a situated multiagent system for controlling automatic guided vehicles
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Designing self-organising environments with agents and artefacts: a simulation-driven approach
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Controlling non-normative behaviors by anticipation for autonomous agents
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
A Framework for Situated Multiagent Systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V
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
Decentralized control of automatic guided vehicles: applying multi-agent systems in practice
Companion to the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications
Programming pervasive and mobile computing applications: The TOTA approach
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Environment in agent-oriented software engineering methodologies
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
The agent environment in multi-agent systems: A middleware perspective
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
Towards a Methodology for Engineering Self-Organising Emergent Systems
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
A reference architecture for situated multiagent systems
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Environmental support for tag interactions
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Regulation function of the environment in agent-based simulation
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Architecture-centric software development of situated multiagent systems
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
Autonomous navigation of an automated guided vehicle in industrial environments
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Applying the ATAM to an architecture for decentralized control of a transportation system
QoSA'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Quality of Software Architectures
Views: middleware abstractions for context-aware applications in MANETs
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Characterization and evaluation of multi-agent system architectural styles
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Grounding social interactions in the environment
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Testing AGVs in dynamic warehouse environments
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
The role of the environment in agreement technologies
Artificial Intelligence Review
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Egemin N. V. is a Belgian manufacturer of Automatic Guided Vehicles -named E'GVs- and control software for automating logistics services in warehouses and manufactories using E'GVs. In a joint R&D project, Egemin and the AgentWise research group are developing an innovative version of the E'GVs control system aimed to cope with new and future system requirements such as flexibility and openness.In this project, we exploit principles and mechanisms known from situated multi-agent systems for modelling and implementing a decentralized control system. Instead of a centralistic approach, where one computer system is in charge of numerous complex and time-consuming tasks (such as routing, collision avoidance, deadlock avoidance, etc.), we aim to provide the E'GVs with a considerable amount of autonomy. This allows to obtain a system that is far more flexible than the current software - the E'GVs adapt themselves to the current situation in their direct vicinity, order assignment is dynamic, the system can cope with E'GVs leaving the system (e.g. for maintenance) or adding new E'GVs, and so on.In this paper, we describe the architecture that is employed for implementing the control of the E'GV system. The implementation of the control software seamlessly integrates with E'nsor, the low-level vehicle control system. We illustrate a concrete control scenario in which two E'GVs coordinate their behavior to avoid collisions.