The current practice in multiagent systems typically associates the environment with
resources that are external to agents and their communication infrastructure. Advanced uses …

Multirobot systems (MRS) are, nowadays, an important research area within robotics and
artificial intelligence and a growing number of systems have recently been presented in the …

Complexity science has seen increasing interest in the recent years. Many engineers have
discovered that traditional methods come to their limits when coping with complex adaptive …

The concept of swarming has been invoked to describe both human military tactics and the
behavior of simple biological systems. Most research on the underlying mechanisms of …

MAHA is a program which implements an algorithm for register level synthesis of data paths
from a data flow specification. The algorithm is based on a linear hardware assignment to …

Emergent self-organization in multi-agent systems appears to contradict the second law of
thermodynamics. This paradox has been explained in terms of a coupling between the …

Self-organization is bound to greatly affect computer science. The simplicity and yet power of
self-organized models will allow researchers to propose efficient solutions to problems …

From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-
oriented (00) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and their …

Stigmergy (the coordination of agents through signs they make and sense in a shared
environment) was originally articulated in the study of social insects. Its basic processes are …

The use of digital pheromones for controlling and coordinating swarms of unmanned
vehicles is studied under various conditions to determine their effectiveness in multiple …