Mobile robots and multimobile robotic system usage for task achievement have been an
emerging research area since the last decades. This article presents a review about mobile …

More and more effort is made to provide methodologies for the development of agent–based
systems. Awareness has grown that these are necessary to develop high quality agent …

This paper presents the principles of a home automation system dedicated to power
management that adapts power consumption to available power ressources according to …

This chapter aims at providing the reader with a thorough understanding of the notion of
cooperation and its use as a self-organising mechanism in artificial systems. As the …

The world human population increases today more than 80 millions of individuals per year,
therefore, the energy needs increase more and more. The buildings represent the most …

This paper contributes to the design of intelligent buildings. A Multi-Agents Home
Automation System (MAHAS) is proposed which controls appliances and energy sources in …

Cette thèse aborde des questions liées à la simulation informatique de systèmes complexes
modéli-sés à l'aide du paradigme multi-agents. Cette approche repose sur l'idée qu'il est …

In this paper, a framework is proposed for the distributed control and coordination of
multiagent systems (MASs). In the proposed framework, the control of MASs is regarded as …

Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can
recognise, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. In this context, computational …

Life on this planet is full of astonishing examples of cooperation. Individual species depend
upon one another for sustenance, often forming surprising alliances to achieve a common …