Software engineers continually strive to develop tools and techniques to manage the
complexity that is inherent in software systems. In this article, we argue that intelligent agents …

This article presents Gaia: a methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design. The Gaia
methodology is both general, in that it is applicable to a wide range of multi-agent systems …

The technology of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems is expected to alter radically
the way in which complex, distributed, open systems are conceptualised and implemented …

This article introduces the current agent-oriented methodologies. It Discusses what
approacheshave been followed (mainly extending existing objectoriented and knowledge …

Since the first edition was published two years ago, much has been done on extend ing the
work done on SMART to address new and important areas [3-5, 54, 79, 80, 108 …

Abstract The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture
currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from …

This interdisciplinary guide explores various types of modeling methods available for
dynamical systems. It begins with the general concepts, representations, and philosophy of …

From AI to Robotics: Mobile, Social, and Sentient Robots is a journey into the world of agent-
based robotics and it covers a number of interesting topics, both in the theory and practice of …

The use of agents of many different kinds in a variety of fields of computer science and
artificial intelligence is increasing rapidly and is due, in part, to their wide applicability. The …

Perhaps the most successful agent architectures, and certainly the best known, are those
based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework. Despite the wealth of research that …