Build your own intelligent agent system... Intelligent agent technology is a tool of modern
computer science that can be used to engineer complex computer programmes that behave …

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 …

An important concept for intelligent agent systems is goals. Goals have two aspects:
declarative (a description of the state sought), and procedural (a set of plans for achieving …

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 …

Variance in business process execution can be the result of several situations, such as
disconnection between documented models and business operations, workarounds in spite …

Ontologies offer significant benefits to multi-agent systems: interoperability, reusability,
support for multi-agent system (MAS) development activities (such as system analysis and …

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 …

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 …

A fundamental feature of intelligent agents is their ability to deliberate over their goals.
Operating in an environment that may change in unpredictable ways, an agent needs to …