BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) agent systems are very powerful, but they lack the ability to incorporate planning. There has been some previous work to incorporate planning withi...
In this paper, we tackle learning in distributed systems and the fact that learning does not necessarily involve the participation of agents directly in the inductive process itse...
Agent theories and agent programs are two very different styles of specification of agent behavior. The former are declarative in nature, while the latter have an imperative fl...
Modular programming has the usual benefits associated with structured programming, information hiding and reusability, but also has additional benefits to offer when applied in ...
Building agents for a scenario such as the RoboCup simulation league requires not only methodologies for implementing high-level complex behavior, but also the careful and efficien...