{"id":142,"date":"2026-08-03T10:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:10:44","slug":"distributed-and-embedded-mas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/?page_id=142","title":{"rendered":"Distributed and Embedded MAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An Embedded Multi-Agent System (MAS) is a computational system embedded in a device that operates in a real-world environment, controls and monitors the hardware, executes physical actions, and allows external communication with other embedded systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction to Distributed and Embedded MAS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The development of an Embedded MAS is a difficult task, as it requires knowledge and concepts from different areas, such as electronics (sensors and actuators), low-level programming, object-oriented programming, and, finally, agent-oriented programming, where the MAS is accountable for cognition, autonomy, social interaction (with other devices, systems, or humans) and decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embedded MAS Development Toolkit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this course, we explore a toolkit for teaching and developing Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) systems using Embedded MAS and also show the benefits of using a spin-off version of Jason specific for embedded agents. This toolkit provides a do-it-yourself approach containing methods, software, teaching materials, hardware schematics, and codes for experiments in practical and simulated embedded BDI agents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture and Real-World Integration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It intends to support academics and professionals in the device\u2019s design by following a five-layer architecture, where they must interfere to build proactive, social, and autonomous devices. The developed MAS can manage the hardware and communicate using an existing network to exchange messages and move agents between systems. This work resignifies the Multi-Agent Oriented Programming (MAOP) by considering Open MAS and extended communication abilities, consolidating Embedded MAS as a promising approach for integrating distributed AI and hardware in the real world using BDI agents programmed in Jason. Besides, it also shows how to emulate devices and hardware components using serial communication to communicate with existing simulators and provide a testable instance before the system deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Pantoja<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Carlos Eduardo Pantoja is an associate professor and researcher at the Federal Center for Technological Education of Rio de Janeiro (CEFET\/RJ), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2009 and he is a permanent professor from the Master’s Program of Computing Teaching (PROFCOMP\/UFRJ) since 2026. He was co-chair and program co-chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering in 2022 and 2023, local chair of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (SBCUP) in 2022, and chair of the Workshop-School of Agent Systems, their Environments and Applications in 2021 and 2025. He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and affiliated with the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), the Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Society (APPIA), and is the head of the Cognitive Hardware on Networks Research Group (CHON) of DGP\/CNPq. He is a member of the program committees of the main international events in the field of artificial intelligence and agents: the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), the Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS), and the Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications (WESAAC). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the SBC’s Electronic Journal of Scientific Initiation (REIC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Nilson<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Professor at the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (Cefet\/RJ). Graduation at Computer Technology (2006) and Post Graduate at Network Computing (2009) from Paranaense University (UNIPAR); Master’s at Systems and Computing (2012) from Military Institute of Engineering (IME). PhD Candidate at Computer Science (2022-) at Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Has experience in Computer Science, acting on the following subjects: Security of Information Systems, Embedded Systems, and Multi-agent Systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Embedded Multi-Agent System (MAS) is a computational system embedded in a device that operates in a real-world environment, controls and monitors the hardware, executes physical actions, and allows external communication with other embedded systems. Introduction to Distributed and Embedded MAS The development of an Embedded MAS is a difficult task, as it requires knowledge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsi.cefet-rj.br\/issia2026\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}