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 …

Agent-oriented system development aims to simplify the construction of complex systems by
introducing a natural abstraction layer on top of the object-oriented paradigm composed of …

This paper provides a general mechanism and a solid theoretical basis for performing
planning within Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents. BDI agent systems have emerged as …

Agents are an important technology that have the potential to take over contemporary
methods for analysing, designing, and implementing complex software. The Belief-Desire …

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 …

An important issue in deploying an autonomous system is how to enable human users and
stakeholders to develop an appropriate level of trust in the system. It has been argued that a …

One aspect of rational behavior is that agents can pursue multiple goals in parallel. Current
BDI theory and systems do not provide a theoretical or architectural framework for deciding …

The multiagent plan coordination problem arises whenever multiple agents plan to achieve
their individual goals independently, but might mutually benefit by coordinating their plans to …