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Design and construction of multi-agent systems is a challenging but an intriguing problem. It is because of the intrinsic distribution of the intelligent components. In such environments the interaction and communication between the constituent parts extends the complexity since appropriate coordination methods need to be designated and employed. In this paper a successful experiment in designing and implementing such an environment is presented1. The test bed for this research is the rescue simulation environment. The architecture of the implemented heterogeneous agents takes advantage of various algorithms. These algorithms make the agents act intelligently by themselves albeit they happen... 

In this paper, we propose a new delayed data offloading scheme by exploiting full-duplex (FD) device-to-device (D2D) communications. To this end, we consider a scenario in which a common file is requested by a subset of users in different times and with different maximum tolerable delays. Moreover, a maximum specific bandwidth is dedicated for data transmission. In order to send the file in the specific bandwidth, we use multicasting alongside FD D2D communications. Thanks to the fact that users have different deadlines, we divide them into non-overlapping groups, i.e., coalitions, to receive the file in distinct intervals. In order to guarantee the tolerable delay of all users, a coalition...