—Multi-agent systems are difficult to develop. One reason for this is that agents are embedded in a society where all agents must agree to obey certain social norms in order for...
Situated Multi-Agents Systems (MAS), and other Agentbased systems, are often complex. Formal reasoning is needed to ensuring their correctness and structuring their development. E...
Multi-agent systems where the agents are developed by parties with competing interests, and where there is no access to an agent's internal state, are often classified as `ope...
Agent-oriented programming has been motivated in part by the conception that high-level programming constructs based on common tions such as beliefs and goals provide appropriate a...
Mainstreaming and industrialising agent technologies requires suitable methodological and technological support for the various engineering activities associated with managing the...