This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Br...
Being able to ensure that a multiagent system will not generate undesirable behaviors is essential within the context of critical applications (embedded systems or real-time system...
Caroline Chopinaud, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Pa...
To create a robot with a mind of its own, we extended a formalized version of a model that explains affect-driven interaction with mechanisms for goaldirected behavior. We ran sim...
Johan F. Hoorn, Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar F. Sid...
In multi-agent applications, normative systems are usually used to regulate the behavior of the agents. They provide an efficient means to ensure limited deviations from an expecte...
Assistant Agents help ordinary people about computer tasks, in many ways, thanks to their rational reasoning capabilities about the current model of the world. However they face st...