The first approach focuses on forms of communication, requirements for consistent
collaboration, planning of coordinated behaviors to achieve collaborative goals, extensions
to logics of action and belief for multiple agents, and types of emergent phenomena when
many agents interact, for instance, taking routing decisions on a telecommunications
network. The second approach focuses on the internal architecture of individual agents
required for social interaction, collaborative behaviors, complex decision making, learning …

Synthetic agents with varying degrees of intelligence and autonomy are being designed in
many research laboratories. The motivations include military training simulations,
educational software, games and entertainment, digital personal assistants, software agents
managing Internet transactions or purely scientific curiosity. Different approaches are being
explored, including, at one extreme, research on the interactions between agents, and at the
other extreme, research on processes within agents.The first approach focuses on forms of …