Service-oriented architectures enable services to be dynamically selected and integrated at runtime, thus enabling system flexibility and adaptiveness—autonomic attributes that...
Stigmergy has been adopted in MAS (multi-agent systems) and in other fields as a technique for realising forms of emergent coordination in societies composed by a large amount of a...
Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli, Lu...
The BDI agent model comprises a simple but efficient folk psychological framework of mentalistic notions usable for modeling rational agent behaviour. Nevertheless, despite its u...
Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach, Winfried Lamersdo...
In a multi-agent system, agents must decide what to do and by what order. Autonomy is a key notion in such a system, since it is mainly the autonomy of the agents that makes the en...
In this paper we present an extension of logic programming (LP) that is suitable not only for the "rational" component of a single agent but also for the "reactive&...