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

The BDI model forms the basis of much of the research on symbolic models of agency and
agent-oriented software engineering. While many variants of the basic BDI model have been …

This paper surveys the state-of-the-art in developing multi-agent systems, and sets out to
answer the questions:“what are the key current issues in developing multi-agent systems?” …

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 …

Self-adaptive software aims at anticipating changes which occur in a complex environment
and to automatically deal with them at run-time. The increasing demand for complex …

The increasing demand for complex and distributed software calls for novel software
engineering methods and techniques, to create systems able to autonomously adapt to …

Goal-directed behavior is a hallmark of intelligence. While the majority of artificial
intelligence research assumes goals are static and externally provided, many real-world …

Abstract Service robots are increasingly being used to perform missions comprising
dangerous or tedious tasks previously executed by humans. However, their users—who …

A fundamental feature of intelligent agents is their ability to deliberate over their goals.
Operating in an environment that may change in unpredictable ways, an agent needs to …