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  • Open Access
4 Citations
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24 Pages

6 October 2018

Due to advances in mobile device and wireless networking technologies, it has already been possible to transfer agent technology into mobile computing environments. In this paper, we introduce the Linked Data Aware Agent Development Framework for Mob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
260 Views
23 Pages

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been widely adopted to solve decision-making problems in complex environments, demonstrating high performance across various domains. However, DRL-based FPS agents are typically trained with a traditional, monoli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,492 Views
17 Pages

23 October 2019

Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) are often used to optimize the use of the resources available in an environment. A flaw during the modelling phase or an unanticipated scenario during their execution, however, can make the agents behave not as planned. As...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,209 Views
29 Pages

Enhancing Conversational Agent Development Through a Semi-Automatization Development Proposal

  • Ángel Martínez-Gárate,
  • José Alfonso Aguilar-Calderón,
  • Carolina Tripp-Barba and
  • Aníbal Zaldívar-Colado

23 January 2025

The development of chatbots is often hindered by high costs and time consumption, with existing technologies and frameworks not fully addressing the diverse requirements for creating robust conversational agents across platforms like WhatsApp. This i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,070 Views
20 Pages

A Practical Approach to Defining a Framework for Developing an Agentic AIOps System

  • Răzvan Daniel Zota,
  • Corneliu Bărbulescu and
  • Radu Constantinescu

The increasing complexity of IT operations necessitates advanced automation to ensure system availability, resilience, continuity, performance, security, and maintainability. Traditional IT management frameworks, such as the Information Technology In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,029 Views
22 Pages

Evaluating conversational agents (CAs) that are supposed to be applied in healthcare settings and ensuring their quality is essential to avoid patient harm and ensure efficacy of the CA-delivered intervention. However, a guideline for a standardized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,128 Views
12 Pages

1 December 2017

Since they can provide a natural and flexible description of nonlinear dynamic behavior of complex system, Agent-based models (ABM) have been commonly used for immune system simulation. However, it is crucial for ABM to obtain an appropriate estimati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,527 Views
24 Pages

Exploring the 2′-Hydroxy-Chalcone Framework for the Development of Dual Antioxidant and Soybean Lipoxygenase Inhibitory Agents

  • Ioanna Kostopoulou,
  • Andromachi Tzani,
  • Nestor-Ioannis Polyzos,
  • Maria-Anna Karadendrou,
  • Eftichia Kritsi,
  • Eleni Pontiki,
  • Thalia Liargkova,
  • Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina,
  • Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis and
  • Anastasia Detsi

2′-hydroxy-chalcones are naturally occurring compounds with a wide array of bioactivity. In an effort to delineate the structural features that favor antioxidant and lipoxygenase (LOX) inhibitory activity, the design, synthesis, and bioactivity profi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,313 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2022

The modeling of smart grids using multi-agent systems is a common approach due to the ability to model complex and distributed systems using an agent-based solution. However, the use of a multi-agent system framework can limit the integration of new...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,835 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2025

With the need for diverse representation in STEM, institutions have found ways to improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) through programs and broad institutional policies. Yet, improving the awareness of faculty regarding DEI can be instrumen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,943 Views
12 Pages

Agent-based modelling is a successful technique in many different fields of science. As a bottom-up method, it is able to simulate complex behaviour based on simple rules and show results at both micro and macro scales. However, developing agent-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,922 Views
22 Pages

15 March 2023

Current multi-agent frameworks usually use centralized, fixed communication infrastructures for the entities that are deployed using them. This decreases the robustness of the system but is less challenging when having to deal with mobile agents that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,605 Views
18 Pages

1 September 2022

Recent work on intelligent agents is a popular topic among the artificial intelligence community and robotic system design. The complexity of designing a framework as a guide for intelligent agents in an unknown built environment suggests a pressing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,167 Views
16 Pages

Scalability of Cyber-Physical Systems with Real and Virtual Robots in ROS 2

  • Francisco José Mañas-Álvarez,
  • María Guinaldo,
  • Raquel Dormido and
  • Sebastian Dormido-Canto

1 July 2023

Nowadays, cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are composed of more and more agents and the demand for designers to develop ever larger multi-agent systems is a fact. When the number of agents increases, several challenges related to control or communicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,402 Views
17 Pages

Agent-Based Modeling Framework for Electric Vehicle Adoption Transition in Indonesia

  • Dita Novizayanti,
  • Eko Agus Prasetio,
  • Manahan Siallagan and
  • Sigit Puji Santosa

Currently, the adoption of electric vehicles (EV) draws much attention, as the environmental issue of reducing carbon emission is increasing worldwide. However, different countries face different challenges during this transition, particularly develo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,764 Views
18 Pages

Decentralized Multi-Agent Control of a Manipulator in Continuous Task Learning

  • Asad Ali Shahid,
  • Jorge Said Vidal Sesin,
  • Damjan Pecioski,
  • Francesco Braghin,
  • Dario Piga and
  • Loris Roveda

1 November 2021

Many real-world tasks require multiple agents to work together. When talking about multiple agents in robotics, it is usually referenced to multiple manipulators in collaboration to solve a given task, where each one is controlled by a single agent....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,123 Views
23 Pages

Framework for Integrated Use of Agent-Based and Ambient-Oriented Modeling

  • Khurrum Mustafa Abbasi,
  • Tamim Ahmed Khan and
  • Irfan ul Haq

7 November 2022

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a flexible and simulation-friendly modeling approach. Ambient-oriented modeling is effective for systems containing ambient and spatial representations. In this paper we propose a framework for the integrated use of agen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
6,624 Views
19 Pages

Automated Negotiation for Peer-to-Peer Electricity Trading in Local Energy Markets

  • Christie Etukudor,
  • Benoit Couraud,
  • Valentin Robu,
  • Wolf-Gerrit Früh,
  • David Flynn and
  • Chinonso Okereke

19 February 2020

Reliable access to electricity is still a challenge in many developing countries. Indeed, rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa and developing countries such as India still encounter frequent power outages. Local energy markets (LEMs) have emerged as a l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,319 Views
23 Pages

Norm Emergence through Conflict-Blocking Interactions in Industrial Internet of Things Environments

  • Yuchen Wang,
  • Yanqin Miao,
  • Gang Fu,
  • Peng Lu,
  • Yikun Yang,
  • Wen Gu,
  • Zijie Fang and
  • Lei Niu

19 September 2024

Norms have been effectively utilized to facilitate smooth interactions among agents. Norms are usually the global data that agents cannot directly access in complex environments; instead, norms can only be indirectly accessed by agents via maintainin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,001 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Tracking Control of a Bionic Wheel-Legged Quadruped

  • Rezwan Al Islam Khan,
  • Chenyun Zhang,
  • Zhongxiao Deng,
  • Anzheng Zhang,
  • Yuzhen Pan,
  • Xuan Zhao,
  • Huiliang Shang and
  • Ruijiao Li

9 December 2024

This paper presents a novel approach to developing control strategies for mobile robots, specifically the Pegasus, a bionic wheel-legged quadruped robot with unique chassis mechanics that enable four-wheel independent steering and diverse gaits. A mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,853 Views
16 Pages

This paper presents the implementation of an agent-based architecture suitable for the coordination of power electronic converters in stand-alone microgrids. To this end, a publish-subscribe agent architecture was utilized as a distributed microgrid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,156 Views
30 Pages

Agentic AI Framework to Automate Traditional Farming for Smart Agriculture

  • Muhammad Murad,
  • Muhammad Ahmed,
  • Nizam ul din,
  • Muhammad Farrukh Shahid,
  • Shahbaz Siddiqui,
  • Daniel Byers,
  • Muhammad Hassan Tanveer and
  • Razvan C. Voicu

Artificial intelligence (AI) shows great promise for transforming the agriculture sector and can enable the development of many modern farming practices over conventional methods. Nowadays, AI agents and agentic AI have attained popularity due to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,372 Views
27 Pages

7 May 2021

The work presents a simulation-based Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) framework for efficient production planning in Energy Supply Chains (ESCs). An Agent-based Model (ABM) that is more comprehensive than others adopted in the literature is develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,621 Views
23 Pages

19 February 2024

One of the main lines of research in distributed learning in recent years is the one related to Federated Learning (FL). In this work, a decentralized Federated Learning algorithm based on consensus (CoL) is applied to Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (WANET...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,598 Views
19 Pages

14 April 2021

Civic agency is acknowledged as a key driver/catalyst for social transformation toward sustainability. Recent environmental citizenship education (EEC) models advocate a transformative approach for addressing environmental unsustainability (addressin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,082 Views
33 Pages

Cognitive Agents Powered by Large Language Models for Agile Software Project Management

  • Konrad Cinkusz,
  • Jarosław A. Chudziak and
  • Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz

This paper investigates the integration of cognitive agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to reinforce software project management. By deploying virtual agents in simulated software environments, thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,153 Views
18 Pages

Integration of Different Mobility Behaviors and Intermodal Trips in MATSim

  • Johannes Müller,
  • Markus Straub,
  • Gerald Richter and
  • Christian Rudloff

31 December 2021

MATSim is an open-source simulation framework for mesoscopic traffic simulations that has gained popularity in recent years. In this paper, we present a MATSim model for the city of Vienna, with a particular emphasis on the intermodal routing framewo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,418 Views
17 Pages

Reinforcement Learning-Based Control Sequence Optimization for Advanced Reactors

  • Khang H. N. Nguyen,
  • Andy Rivas,
  • Gregory Kyriakos Delipei and
  • Jason Hou

1 July 2024

The last decade has seen the development and application of data-driven methods taking off in nuclear engineering research, aiming to improve the safety and reliability of nuclear power. This work focuses on developing a reinforcement learning-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,580 Views
42 Pages

27 February 2025

In this paper, we focus on developing self-organizing algorithms aimed at solving, in a distributed way, the coverage problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). For this purpose, we apply a game-theoretical framework based on an application of a var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,388 Views
33 Pages

13 August 2021

This paper focuses on the development of a multi agent control system (MACS), combined with a stochastic based approach for occupancy estimation. The control framework aims to maintain the comfort levels of a building in high levels and reduce the ov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,314 Views
20 Pages

MTGNet: Multi-Agent End-to-End Motion Trajectory Prediction with Multimodal Panoramic Dynamic Graph

  • Yinfei Dai,
  • Yuantong Zhang,
  • Xiuzhen Zhou,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Xiao Song and
  • Shaoqiang Wang

8 May 2025

With the rapid development of autonomous driving technology, multi-agent trajectory prediction has become the core foundation of autonomous driving algorithms. Efficiently and accurately predicting the future trajectories of multiple agents is key to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,937 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Training and Collaboration Integrated Framework for Human–Agent Teleoperation

  • Zebin Huang,
  • Ziwei Wang,
  • Weibang Bai,
  • Yanpei Huang,
  • Lichao Sun,
  • Bo Xiao and
  • Eric M. Yeatman

14 December 2021

Human operators have the trend of increasing physical and mental workloads when performing teleoperation tasks in uncertain and dynamic environments. In addition, their performances are influenced by subjective factors, potentially leading to operati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,670 Views
15 Pages

29 March 2025

The development and use of conversational agents in education has become widespread in recent years because of their ability to facilitate student interaction with the learning material, improve engagement and provide academic support, while at the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
964 Views
23 Pages

5 September 2025

This paper develops a belief-based dynamic optimisation framework to explain career continuation decisions in settings characterised by monopsonistic employment and asymmetric performance evaluation. Extending Holmström’s career concerns m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
15,242 Views
32 Pages

The smart-house technology aims to increase home automation and security with reduced energy consumption. A smart house consists of various intelligent sensors and actuators operating on different platforms with conflicting objectives. This paper pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
18,783 Views
19 Pages

Emergent Cooperation and Strategy Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems: An Extended Coevolutionary Theory with LLMs

  • I. de Zarzà,
  • J. de Curtò,
  • Gemma Roig,
  • Pietro Manzoni and
  • Carlos T. Calafate

The increasing complexity of Multi-Agent Systems (MASs), coupled with the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), have highlighted significant gaps in our understanding of the behavior and interactions of diverse e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,786 Views
23 Pages

A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning System for Governmental Interoperability

  • Azanu Mirolgn Mequanenit,
  • Eyerusalem Alebachew Nibret,
  • Pilar Herrero-Martín,
  • María S. García-González and
  • Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar

13 March 2025

This study explores the integration of the JADE (Java Agent Development Framework) platform with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to enhance governmental interoperability and optimize administrative workflows in municipal settings. The proposed appr...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,879 Views
10 Pages

2 June 2018

A modeling framework was conceptualized for capturing the complexities in resilience and sustainability associated with integration of centralized and decentralized water and energy systems under future demographic, climate, and technology scenarios....

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
15,964 Views
27 Pages

Solving the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem in the Industry 4.0 Era

  • Matheus E. Leusin,
  • Enzo M. Frazzon,
  • Mauricio Uriona Maldonado,
  • Mirko Kück and
  • Michael Freitag

Technological developments along with the emergence of Industry 4.0 allow for new approaches to solve industrial problems, such as the Job-shop Scheduling Problem (JSP). In this sense, embedding Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) into Cyber-Physical Systems (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,740 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Kalman Temporal Difference and Successor Representation

  • Mohammad Salimibeni,
  • Arash Mohammadi,
  • Parvin Malekzadeh and
  • Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

11 February 2022

Development of distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms has attracted an increasing surge of interest lately. Generally speaking, conventional Model-Based (MB) or Model-Free (MF) RL algorithms are not directly applicable to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,234 Views
18 Pages

Flexible Agent Architecture: Mixing Reactive and Deliberative Behaviors in SPADE

  • Javier Palanca,
  • Jaime Andres Rincon,
  • Carlos Carrascosa,
  • Vicente Javier Julian and
  • Andrés Terrasa

Over the years, multi-agent systems (MAS) technologies have shown their usefulness in creating distributed applications focused on autonomous intelligent processes. For this purpose, many frameworks for supporting multi-agent systems have been develo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,226 Views
44 Pages

2 September 2021

This paper provides the Agent in a Box for developing autonomous mobile robots using Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents. This framework provides the means of connecting the agent reasoning system to the environment, using the Robot Operating System...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,434 Views
17 Pages

9 July 2018

Recently, the concept of Internet of Agent has been introduced as a potential technology that pushes intelligence, data processing, analytics and communication capabilities down to the point where the data originates. In this paper, we introduce a no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,688 Views
21 Pages

RV4JaCa—Towards Runtime Verification of Multi-Agent Systems and Robotic Applications

  • Debora C. Engelmann,
  • Angelo Ferrando,
  • Alison R. Panisson,
  • Davide Ancona,
  • Rafael H. Bordini and
  • Viviana Mascardi

24 March 2023

This paper presents a Runtime Verification (RV) approach for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) using the JaCaMo framework. Our objective is to bring a layer of security to the MAS. This is achieved keeping in mind possible safety-critical uses of the MAS, su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,551 Views
20 Pages

This paper proposes a Human-AI collaborative framework for cybersecurity consulting tailored to the needs of small businesses, designed and implemented within a Master of Cybersecurity capstone program. The framework outlines a structured four-stage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,773 Views
17 Pages

Shared Protentions in Multi-Agent Active Inference

  • Mahault Albarracin,
  • Riddhi J. Pitliya,
  • Toby St. Clere Smithe,
  • Daniel Ari Friedman,
  • Karl Friston and
  • Maxwell J. D. Ramstead

29 March 2024

In this paper, we unite concepts from Husserlian phenomenology, the active inference framework in theoretical biology, and category theory in mathematics to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding social action premised on shared goals. W...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,706 Views
47 Pages

Overview of Software Agent Platforms Available in 2023

  • Zofia Wrona,
  • Wojciech Buchwald,
  • Maria Ganzha,
  • Marcin Paprzycki,
  • Florin Leon,
  • Noman Noor and
  • Constantin-Valentin Pal

18 June 2023

Agent-based computing remains an active field of research with the goal of building (semi-)autonomous software for dynamic ecosystems. Today, this task should be realized using dedicated, specialized frameworks. Over almost 40 years, multiple agent p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,301 Views
22 Pages

9 February 2023

The PLM concept implies the use of heterogeneous information resources at different stages of the product life cycle, the joint work of which allows the user to effectively solve the problems of product quality and various costs. According to the pri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,729 Views
21 Pages

Impact of Different [Tc(N)PNP]-Scaffolds on the Biological Properties of the Small cRGDfK Peptide: Synthesis, In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluations

  • Nicola Salvarese,
  • Debora Carpanese,
  • Laura Meléndez-Alafort,
  • Laura De Nardo,
  • Andrea Calderan,
  • Barbara Biondi,
  • Paolo Ruzza,
  • Antonio Rosato and
  • Cristina Bolzati

14 April 2022

Background: The [99mTc][Tc(N)(PNP)] system, where PNP is a bisphosphinoamine, is an interesting platform for the development of tumor ‘receptor-specific’ agents. Here, we compared the reactivity and impact of three [Tc(N)(PNP)] frameworks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,810 Views
21 Pages

Deployment Environment for a Swarm of Heterogeneous Robots

  • Tamer Abukhalil,
  • Madhav Patil,
  • Sarosh Patel and
  • Tarek Sobh

26 October 2016

The objective of this work is to develop a framework that can deploy and provide coordination between multiple heterogeneous agents when a swarm robotic system adopts a decentralized approach; each robot evaluates its relative rank among the other ro...

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