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 …

Autonomous agents are increasingly required to be able to make moral decisions. In these
situations, the agent should be able to reason about the ethical bases of the decision and …

Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the
system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems …

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 …

Pro-active agents typically have multiple simultaneous goals. These may interact with each
other both positively and negatively. In this paper we provide a mechanism allowing agents …

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

Rational agents typically pursue multiple goals in parallel. However most existing agent
systems do not have any infrastructure support for reasoning about either positive or …

An important feature of BDI agent systems is number of different ways in which an agent can
achieve its goals. The choice of means to achieve the goal in made by the system at run …

Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms.
One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states that …