The virtual laboratory is a new technology, based on the internet, that has had wide usage in
a variety of technical fields because of its inherent ability to allow many users to participate …

This thesis proposes a deeper research about the nuclear ideas for intelligent agents
deliberation and control models: First, individual power, defined as the agent's set of …

The experimental scientist need tools to quantify and classify collected data. This paper
proposes to give meaning and measure to the intuitive concept of predictability. It is a global …

Despite the social emphasis in Multi-Agent Based Systems research, individual agent
architectures should not be discarded. The individual capacity for effective action selection …

Does an agent mental space constitute the environment for a second agent? Can we use a
second agent to percept and manipulate the individual entities that compose a certain …

What if an agent mental space does constitute the environment for a second agent? Even
the simplest agent architectures are composites of entities that, together, define the agent's …

The state of the art in the agent field is at the frontier of deploying real intelligent agents, able
to build their own understanding of the world and of associated processes. Maybe that goal …

This paper concerns a foundational analysis of the autonomy of rational agents. It introduces
the abstract notion of agent drives, an analog of Clark Hull's psychological notion of drives …