Recent research in artificial intelligence has developed computational theories of agents'
involvements in their environments. Although inspired by a great diversity of formalisms and …

Over time the field of artificial intelligence has developed an" agent perspective" expanding
its focus from thought to action, from search spaces to physical environments, and from …

The design of coordination mechanisms for groups of computational agents, either
interacting with one another or with people, depends crucially on the task environment of …

The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
mainstream computer science. In this article, we present a survey of what we perceive to be …

Designing Autonomous Agents provides a summary and overview of the radically different
architectures that have been developed over the past few years for organizing robots. These …

The predominant paradigm in cognitive science has been the cognitivistic one, exemplified
by the “Physical Symbol Systems Hypothesis”. The cognitivistic approach generated hopes …

Cognitive Science attempts to study entities which in some sense possess beliefs,
intentions, desires etc. The preferred term in this thesis for such entities is agents. An attempt …

We argue that the analysis of agent/environment interactions should be extended to include
the conventions and invariants maintained by agents throughout their activity. We refer to …

We describe a set of design principles for building" Fungus Eaters"" Fungus Eaters' are
complete autonomous systems. The goal is to extract and describe in a compact way a large …

Drawing on on our work in the area of Distributed Artificial Intelligence, we propose the
rudiments of an approach to reasoning about other agents. We attempt to relate current …