Jason is an Open Source interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak–a logic-based
agent-oriented programming language–written in JavaTM. It enables users to build complex …

This article presents a BDI-based agent-oriented programming language, called 2APL (A
Practical Agent Programming Language). This programming language facilitates the …

Agent technology currently plays an important role in complex software development. The
underlying paradigm offers a large repertoire of original concepts, architectures, interaction …

Software agents offer a range of benefits to the development of complex software systems.
However, before these benefits can be realised by the computing industry there is a need for …

Agent-oriented system development aims to simplify the construction of complex systems by
introducing a natural abstraction layer on top of the object-oriented paradigm composed of …

It is claimed that, in the nascent 'Cognitive Era', intelligent systems will be trained using
machine learning techniques rather than programmed by software developers. A contrary …

Agents are an important technology that have the potential to take over contemporary
methods for analysing, designing, and implementing complex software. The Belief-Desire …

In the literature on agent systems, the proactive behavior of agents is often modeled in terms
of goals that the agents pursue. We review a number of commonly-used existing goal types …

This chapter presents 3APL, which is a multi-agent programming language, and its
corresponding development platform. The 3APL language is motivated by cognitive agent …

An important issue in deploying an autonomous system is how to enable human users and
stakeholders to develop an appropriate level of trust in the system. It has been argued that a …