This paper proposes dynamic semantics for agent communication languages (ACLs) as a method for tackling some of the fundamental problems associated with agent communication in ope...
Intelligent agents provide a means to integrate various manufacturing software applications. The agents are typically executed in a computer-based collaborative environment, refer...
We argue that mutable programs are an important class of future applications. The field of software agents is an important beneficiary of mutability. We evaluate existing mutabl...
It is common practice to build complex systems from disparate sub-systems. Model composability is concerned with techniques for developing a whole model of a system from the model...
Abstract. Software agents are a promising technology for today's complex, distributed systems. Methodologies and techniques that address testing and reliability of multi agent...