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...
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 th...
With the increasing popularity of COTS (commercial off the shelf) components and multi-core processor in space and aviation applications, software fault tolerance becomes attracti...
Analysis and design of programs by using tools has emerged to a standard technique in object-oriented software engineering. Many of these tools claim to implement methods accordin...
The Fluent Calculus has largely been focused on building agents that work individually. However, agents often need to interact with each other to learn more about their environmen...