Formal theories of multi-agent systems require a rich ontology for modelling the dynamics of social behaviour. In this paper a formal analysis of the social behaviour of individua...
1 A hybrid (symbolic/connectionist) cognitive architecture, DUAL, is proposed. It is a multi-agent system which consist of a large number of non-cognitive, relatively simple agents...
Systems that can immediately react to their inputs may suffer from cyclic dependencies between their actions and the corresponding trigger conditions. For this reason, causality an...
Perhaps the most successful agent architectures, and certainly the best known, are those based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework. Despite the wealth of research that ...
Abstract. This paper describes recent work concerned with the speci cation of requirements on interactive systems and the de nition of user-level properties of such systems. A form...