BDI agent languages provide a useful abstraction for complex systems comprised of interactive autonomous entities, but they have been used mostly in the context of single agents w...
This paper describes a new approach to programming autonomic systems. Autonomic functions are integrated into element objects at design time using a special language called JSpoon...
Autonomy has always been conceived as one of the defining attributes of intelligent agents. While the past years have seen considerable progress regarding theoretical aspects of a...
In this paper we introduce an object-oriented coordination language for multi-agents systems. The beliefs and reasoning capabilities ent are specified in terms of a corresponding ...
Frank S. de Boer, Cees Pierik, Rogier M. van Eijk,...
The modularization of negotiating agents as proposed by the C-IPS approach provides a sound base for a concept that we call dynamic degrees of delegation. Agents following this co...