Informal notions of context often imply much more than that captured in many computational formalisms of it. The view presented in this paper, built on our understanding of designi...
This paper describes a methodology that is being developed for designing and building agent-based systems for the domain of production control. In particular, this paper deals with...
Stefan Bussmann, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Woo...
The abstractions and protocol mechanisms that form the basis for inter-agent communications can significantly impact the overall design and effectiveness of Mobile Agent systems. W...
Mudumbai Ranganathan, Marc Bednarek, Doug Montgome...
Before the powerful agent programming paradigm can be adopted in commercial or industrial settings, a complete environment, similar to that for other programming languages, must b...
John R. Graham, Daniel McHugh, Michael Mersic, Fos...
We define a tool-supported design framework that allows to specify an agent goal model and to automatically generate fragments of a BDI agent from it. We devise the design proces...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, Mirko M...