The AARIA agent architecture: an example of requirements-driven agent-based system design
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA
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The ant colony optimization meta-heuristic
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AntNet: distributed stigmergetic control for communications networks
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HoloMAS '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
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Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
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Multi-agent coordination and control, as encountered in holonic manufacturing system implementations, can be classified according to two categories of agent interaction schemes. In the first category, agents explicitly interact and negotiate with each other. A well-known example is the contract net protocol. In the second category, the agents interact and coordinate indirectly by changing their "environment". These changes are observed by other agents and influence their behaviour. A form of coordination based on such an indirect interaction is called stigmergy. This paper describes a specific type of coordination and control belonging to the second category. It also discusses how this enables the design of a system in which agents make global information locally available to other agents without any agent becoming exposed to global system properties.