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Chapter and Conference Paper
Formalisation and Analysis of the Temporal Dynamics of Conditioning
In order to create adaptive Agent Systems with abilities matching those of their biological counterparts, a natural approach is to incorporate classical conditioning mechanisms into such systems. However, exis...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automated Evaluation of Coordination Approaches
How to coordinate the processes in a complex component-based software system is a nontrivial issue. Many different coordination approaches exist, each with its own specific advantages and drawbacks. To support...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
LEADSTO: A Language and Environment for Analysis of Dynamics by SimulaTiOn
This paper presents the language and software environment LEADSTO that has been developed to model and simulate the dynamics of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in terms of both qualitative and quantitative concepts....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Distributed Weighing Problem: A Lesson in Cooperation Without Communication
Cooperative problem solving without communication is an often-studied field within multi-agent research. Realistic problems investigated in this particular field are complex and difficult to model, and therefo...