This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...
From the last decade, modeling of cognitive agents have drawn great attention and provide a new paradigm for addressing fundamental questions in cognitive science. In this paper, a...
In this paper, we show how to establish correctness and time bounds (e.g., quality of service guarantees) for multi-agent systems composed of communicating rule-based agents. The f...
This paper presents the computational logic foundations of a model of agency called the KGP (Knowledge, Goals and Plan) model. This model allows the specification of heterogeneous...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, ...
— Nodes forming mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) nodes can be logically partitioned into 1) a selfish user agent serving the interests of the end user (owner) of the mobile device...