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 …

Advances in Computer Science often arise from new ideas and concepts, that prove to be
advantageous for the design of complex software systems. The con ception of multi agent …

Motivated by Dennett's philosophy of ladder of personhood described in the previous
chapter, this chapter first describes the formal theories related to intentional systems. The …

Enterprise integration through integrated business information systems (IBIS) is necessary to
achieve agility in the current age of hyper-competition. Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide a …

The objective of this paper is twofold. In its first part, we survey the state of the art in research
on agent architectures. The architecture of an agent describes its modules and capabilities …

This book is based on the second International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures,
and Languages, held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial …

We consider an autonomous agent facing a stochastic, partially observable, multiagent
environment. In order to compute an optimal plan, the agent must accurately predict the …

We present our approach to the problem of how an agent, within an economic Multi-Agent
System, can determine when it should behave strategically (ie model the other agents), and …

In a computational market, distributed market agents interact with other agents primarily
through the exchange of goods and services. Thanks to a well-developed underlying …

The control architecture of an autonomous agent describes its modules and capabilities, and
how they work together. Over the past few years, numerous architectures have been …