Design patterns have been recently concerned in the multi-agent community for the design of systems with decentralized coordination. In this paper we present a design pattern for d...
Abstract. In most agent programming languages in practice a programmer is committed to the use of a single knowledge representation technology. In this paper we argue this is not n...
Abstract. The design of reactive systems must comply with logical correctness (the system does what it is supposed to do) and timeliness (the system has to satisfy a set of tempora...
—This paper proposes a module-based vision for designing BDI-based multi-agent programming languages. The introduced concept of modules enables common programming techniques such...
When an agent enters in an e-Market for the first time, it has no historical information that can be used to determine the strength of business relationship with participant agen...