This paper develops a quasi-decentralized control framework for plants with distributed,
interconnected units that exchange information over a shared communication network. In …

Supervision of distributed manufacturing processes producing different grades of a product
requires intelligent reconfiguration strategies during grade transition phases to minimize off …

The constantly growing number of wireless devices and applications makes efficient
spectrum utilization critical. Cognitive radio technology offers a solution by employing …

This paper develops a quasi-decentralized state estimation and control architecture for
plants with limited state measurements and distributed, interconnected units that exchange …

Agent-based control structures provide flexible and emergent solutions to complex nonlinear
problems benefiting from properties such as modularity, adaptability, scalability and …

This paper develops a quasi-decentralized control framework for plants with distributed,
interconnected units that exchange information over a shared communication network. In …

This thesis proposes some of the basic components of an adaptive hierarchical multilayered
multi-agent supervision and control framework for nonlinear and distributed processes …

Control of complex networked systems can be achieved via hierarchical multilayered agent-
based structures benefiting from their inherent properties such as modularity, adaptability …

In this paper we present an agent-based model that incorporates concepts of newproduct
diffusion to represent the behavior of households in providing waste cooking oil that is …

The concept of agent has been successfully used in a wide range of applications such as
Robotics, e-commerce, agent-assisted user training, military transport or health-care. The …