This report presents results from a recent research investigation on agent toolkits on the
market and their use in post-secondary courses. Data collection comprised the download …

Responding to natural or man-made disasters in a timely and effective manner can reduce
deaths and injuries, contain or prevent secondary disasters, and reduce the resulting …

In this paper, we present the results of scalability and performance measurements of the
messaging transport system of JADE, a FIPA compliant agent platform. A brief description of …

Multi-agent system is one of the emerging trends in computer science. It can provide new
solutions to very complex and restrictive system. The application of multi-agent systems is …

In this paper we present the agent architecture development environment ADE, intended for
the design, implementation, and testing of distributed agent architectures. After a short …

Modularization is widely recognized as a central issue in software engineering. In this paper
we address the issue of modularization in cognitive agent programming languages. We …

As agent-oriented paradigm is reaching a significant level of acceptance by software
developers, there is a lack of integrated high-level abstraction tools for the design and …

We present Pirasa: an agent-based simulation environment for studying how autonomous
agents can best interact with each other to exchange goods in e-commerce marketplaces. A …

In this paper, the notion of declarative goals as used in agent programming is central.
Declarative goals describe desirable states and are updated during the execution of an …

We present a novel algorithm to improve the design of programs by removing circular
dependencies between packages without completely collapsing the package structure. This …